Incidence and Grading of Complications After Gastrectomy for Cancer Using the GASTRODATA Registry: A European Retrospective Observational Study.

Objective: Utilizing a standardized dataset based on a newly developed list of 27 univocally defined complications, this study analyzed data to assess the incidence and grading of complications and evaluate outcomes associated with gastrectomy for cancer in Europe.

Summary Background Data: The absence of a standardized system for recording gastrectomy-associated complications makes it difficult to compare results from different hospitals and countries.

Methods: Using a secure online platform (www.

Task-Specific Sensitivity in Physical Function Testing Predicts Outcome in Patients With Low Back Pain.

Objective: To investigate the prognostic value of task-specific sensitivity in patients with low back pain by exploring whether task-specific sensitivity during physical function testing was associated with self-reported change in pain and disability.

Design: Prospective cohort study nested in a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: The study included 260 patients with low back pain, referred for evaluation in a secondary care setting.

International consensus on a complications list after gastrectomy for cancer.

Background: Perioperative complications can affect outcomes after gastrectomy for cancer, with high mortality and morbidity rates ranging between 10 and 40%. The absence of a standardized system for recording complications generates wide variation in evaluating their impacts on outcomes and hinders proposals of quality-improvement projects. The aim of this study was to provide a list of defined gastrectomy complications approved through international consensus.

Research integrity among PhD students within clinical research at the University of Southern Denmark.

Introduction: Responsible conduct of research is the basis for the credibility of all research. Research misconduct is defined as the fabrication, falsification or plagiarism committed willfully or grossly negligently in the planning, performing or reporting of research. We undertook a survey of knowledge of the attitudes towards and experiences with research misconduct among PhD students in clinical research.

Narratives of life with long-term low back pain: A follow up interview study.

Background: Long-term low back pain is associated with multiple challenges to a person's identity and social position. Despite efforts to understand the challenges of low back pain, recovery remains a major problem both personally and socially. This indicate a need for a different approach.

National Clinical Guidelines for non-surgical treatment of patients with recent onset low back pain or lumbar radiculopathy.

Purpose: To summarise recommendations about 20 non-surgical interventions for recent onset (<12 weeks) non-specific low back pain (LBP) and lumbar radiculopathy (LR) based on two guidelines from the Danish Health Authority.

Methods: Two multidisciplinary working groups formulated recommendations based on the GRADE approach.

Results: Sixteen recommendations were based on evidence, and four on consensus.

Early retirement among Danish female cleaners and shop assistants according to work environment characteristics and upper extremity complaints: an 11-year follow-up study.

Background: Studies have shown a negative social gradient in the incidence of early retirement. To prevent undesired early retirement, there is a need for knowledge of specific predictors in addition to social factors with a limited potential for change. The main purpose of this study was to examine musculoskeletal complaints and working conditions as predictors of early retirement among Danish female cleaners.

Maintaining a Distinction Between Possible and Impossible Topics of Conversation in the Outpatient Respiratory Medical Clinic.

The aim of this study is to generate a grounded theory explaining patterns of behavior among health care professionals (HCPs) during interactions with patients in outpatient respiratory medical clinics. The findings suggest that the HCPs managed contradictory expectations to the interaction by maintaining a distinction between possible and impossible topics to counseling. Three subcategories explaining the effort that maintain the impossible and possible topics separated were identified: (a) an effort to maintain the diseased lungs as the main task in counseling, (b) navigating interactions to avoid strong emotions of suffering in patients to reveal, (c) avoiding the appearance of the non-alterable life circumstances of the patients.

Exploring the Unmet Needs of the Patients in the Outpatient Respiratory Medical Clinic: Patients versus Clinicians Perspectives.

Aim. Developing a theoretical framework explaining patients' behaviour and actions related to unmet needs during interactions with health care professionals in hospital-based outpatient respiratory medical clinics. Background.

Risks of permanent disability in low back pain patients associated with different job positions: a 5-year follow-up study.

Purpose: To present a systematic review on ICF used in the Nordic countries from 2001 to 2013, describing and quantifying the development in utilization of ICF, and describe the extent to which the different components of the ICF have been used.

Method: A search was conducted in EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycInfo. Papers from Nordic countries were included if ICF was mentioned in title or abstract.

Intrathoracic anastomotic leakage after gastroesophageal cancer resection is associated with increased risk of recurrence.

Objective: Intrathoracic anastomotic leakage after intended curative resection for cancer in the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction has a negative impact on long-term survival. The aim of this study was to investigate whether an anastomotic leakage was associated with an increased recurrence rate.

Methods: This nationwide study included consecutively collected data on patients undergoing curative surgical resection with intrathoracic anastomosis, alive 8 weeks postoperatively, between 2003 and 2011.

Varicose veins in the lower extremities in relation to occupational mechanical exposures: a longitudinal study.

Objectives: To evaluate if occupational mechanical exposures are associated with an increased risk of surgery for varicose veins (VV) in the lower extremities.

Methods: We conducted a longitudinal study of persons from the Musculoskeletal Research Database at the Danish Ramazzini Centre who were 18-65 years old when they provided baseline questionnaire data during 1993-2004. Exposure estimates were obtained from a job exposure matrix based on expert ratings.

[Cardiac tamponade after laparoscopic operation for a traumatic].

Cardiac tamponade is a rare complication of diaphragmatic hernia repair. We report a case of a 79-year-old female, who underwent a laparoscopic procedure with mesh implantation. Tackers were used to secure the mesh to the diaphragm.

Low back pain patients' beliefs about effective/ineffective constituents of a counseling intervention: a follow-up interview study.

Purpose: Everyday activities are important factors for avoiding the development of chronic low back pain (LBP). The purpose this study was to explore LBP patients' perspective on long-term effects of participating in a counseling intervention designed to motivate them to change work routines and to exercise.

Method: Follow-up qualitative study.

An expert-based job exposure matrix for large scale epidemiologic studies of primary hip and knee osteoarthritis: the Lower Body JEM.

Background: When conducting large scale epidemiologic studies, it is a challenge to obtain quantitative exposure estimates, which do not rely on self-report where estimates may be influenced by symptoms and knowledge of disease status. In this study we developed a job exposure matrix (JEM) for use in population studies of the work-relatedness of hip and knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Based on all 2227 occupational titles in the Danish version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (D-ISCO 88), we constructed 121 job groups comprising occupational titles with expected homogeneous exposure patterns in addition to a minimally exposed job group, which was not included in the JEM.

[Presentation, diagnosis and management of swallowed foreign bodies].

Foreign body ingestion occurs commonly. In 80-90% of cases, the ingested foreign body passes uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract; endoscopy is performed in 20% of cases, and surgery in less than 1%. Complications usually occur when the ingested foreign body is sharp, large, a button battery or multiple magnets.

Differences in the pattern of anastomotic leakage after oesophagectomy in two high-volume centres.

Introduction: Complications to oesophageal and junctional cancer surgery are common and have not diminished much during the past ten years. An unusually high occurrence of anastomotic dehiscence occurred in Denmark in 2009 and 2010 as seen in the national database for oesophagus, cardiac and gastric (ECV) cancer.

Material And Methods: In accordance with national guidelines, all patients resected for oesophageal and junctional cancer in Denmark from 2003 were prospectively entered into a national database.

Intrathoracic anastomotic leakage after gastroesophageal cancer resection is associated with reduced long-term survival.

Background: Most likely because of low statistical power, no previous studies have shown any significant association between long-term survival and anastomotic leakage in patients who have undergone gastroesophageal cancer resection.

Material And Methods: The present study included, prospectively and consecutively, nationwide collected patients who underwent gastroesophageal cancer resection between 2003 and 2011 in Denmark. The operation was carried out as an Ivor Lewis procedure.

Notification of occupational disease and the risk of work disability: a two-year follow-up study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze if notification of an occupational disease increases the risk of work disability.

Methods: We included 2304 patients examined at the Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, 1998-2005 and followed them for two years. A total of 564 patients were notified of an occupational disease when they were examined at baseline and 1740 patients were not.