Drug-free psychiatric treatment - what do the patients think?

Background: Since 2016, all health regions have been instructed to provide drug-free psychiatric treatment options. The evidence base for such treatment has been called for. At Jæren District Psychiatric Centre we therefore identified the patients' wishes for drug-free treatment.

Use and usefulness of laboratory handbooks.

The aim of this study was to investigate how reference handbooks distributed by hospital laboratories are used by medical doctors, and to what extent this kind of information can influence or change doctors' work habits. We also wanted to see if books with various contents of information are valued differently by the users, and we asked for preferences for an ideal book. A questionnaire was sent to 2075 medical doctors served by five Norwegian hospital laboratories.

[Congenital fructose intolerance. New molecular aspects].

Hereditary fructose intolerance is a human autosomal recessive disease caused by a deficiency of aldolase B that results in an inability to metabolize fructose and related sugars. Molecular analyses have shown that most defects are caused by point mutations in critical regions of the aldolase B gene. We have performed PCR-based DNA analysis of members of two Norwegian families with hereditary fructose intolerance.

[Diagnostic value of C-reactive protein and D-dimer in deep venous thrombosis].

The accuracy of C-reactive protein (CRP) and D-dimer in detecting deep venous thrombosis was compared with phlebography in a consecutive series of 69 patients admitted to hospital due to suspicion of thrombosis in the leg. With a sensitivity of 100%, C-reactive protein can exclude the possibility of thrombosis. The sensitivity of D-dimer was too low to exclude the diagnosis.