Publications by authors named "Helge Ose Velle"

"Admission for social reasons" and "causa socialis" are terms often used to describe hospitalisations that are assumed to be unnecessary. However, a thorough assessment of so-called unnecessarily admitted patients may often reveal medical causes that are both serious and curable.

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Background: Recent advances in computed tomography (CT) has made noninvasive imaging of the coronary arteries possible. Multidetector-CT (MDCT)-scanners capable of visualizing the coronary arteries will be available in most Norwegian hospitals within a few years. If the examinations have acceptable quality, diagnostics of coronary pathology could to some extent be decentralized.

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