Publications by authors named "Berit H Bringedal"
Objectives: This study aimed to examine disparities in cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, and survival rates across districts with differences in education levels in Oslo, Norway.
Methods: Aggregated data from the Cancer Registry of Norway in the period 2013-2021 were used to describe the distribution of cancer incidence and survival across Oslo's 15 administrative districts, subsequently grouped into three areas based on the population's level of education. Age-standardised incidence rates and five-year relative survival were calculated for colon, rectal, lung, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancer.
Objectives: To explore and compare physicians' reported moral distress in 2004 and 2021 and identify factors that could be related to these responses.
Design: Longitudinal survey.
Setting: Data were gathered from the Norwegian Physician Panel Study, a representative sample of Norwegian physicians, conducted in 2004 and 2021.
Background: Whether patients' life-style should involve lower priority for treatment is a controversial question in bioethics. Less is known about clinicians' views.
Aim: To study how clinical doctors' attitudes to questions of patient responsibility and priority vary over time.
Article Synopsis
- Doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic had to adapt to new priority settings for patient treatment, facing challenges in adhering to guidelines.
- A study involving 2,316 doctors in Norway revealed that 70% responded; many were familiar with priority criteria but not the related legislation, and most did not follow the guidelines in the early pandemic phase.
- The findings indicate that a significant portion of doctors felt it was medically indefensible to deprioritize patients, highlighting tension between imposed regulations and medical ethics.