Publications by authors named "J Mesterton"
Study Objectives: To estimate the prevalence and incidence and evaluate the treatment patterns of patients diagnosed with narcolepsy in specialist care in Sweden.
Methods: This non-interventional retrospective longitudinal study used Swedish register data from 2010 to 2020 and included patients diagnosed with narcolepsy (either type 1 or type 2), recorded in specialist outpatient and inpatient care from January 2015 to December 2019. All patients received an index date corresponding to the date of the first narcolepsy diagnosis.
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- The standard treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has been the 7+3 regimen (cytarabine infusion with anthracycline) since the 1980s.
- A recent study compared this standard regimen with a higher dose of cytarabine in older, high-risk AML patients, showing improved overall survival rates and remission rates in those receiving the increased dose.
- The results indicated that those on the higher cytarabine dosage had a median overall survival of 10.7 months compared to 6.4 months for the standard dose, suggesting that the more intensive treatment leads to better outcomes for this patient group.
Purpose: To evaluate the predictive precision of the Dialogue Support, a tool for additional help in shared decision-making before surgery of the degenerative spine.
Methods: Data in Swespine (Swedish national quality registry) of patients operated between 2007 and 2019 found the development of prediction algorithms based on logistic regression analyses, where socio-demographic and baseline variables were included. The algorithms were tested in four diagnostic groups: lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease and cervical radiculopathy.
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- A study looked at how technology can help doctors and nurses get quick feedback on their performance to improve healthcare quality.
- They interviewed staff at a Swedish hospital to see how effective a special tool was for measuring their work.
- The tool was helpful, but understanding the data needed some knowledge of statistics, and it was made better by working together with the technology creators.
Background: Case mix adjustment is a pre-requisite for valid measurement of healthcare performance and socioeconomic status (SES) is important to account for. Lack of information on individual-level SES has led to investigations into using a proxy for SES based on patient area of residence. The objective of this study was to use neighbourhood SES for case mix adjustment of performance indicators in total hip replacement (THR) in Sweden, and to compare with use of individual SES.
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