Publications by authors named "O A ERICSON"
Scaling up! Staff e-learning for a national take-home naloxone program.
Front Digit Health
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- A new online training course was created in Norway to help people learn about distributing naloxone, which can save lives during opioid overdoses.
- 371 people, mostly nurses and social workers, took the course and showed a big increase in their knowledge about overdoses after finishing it.
- Although 15% of participants distributed naloxone a month later, many had reasons for not doing so, like their clients not wanting it or their workplace not being ready to help.
Background: People who use opioids (PWUO) have an excess mortality from a range of causes. The cumulative effect of behavioral, social, and health risk factors complicates the interpretation of the effects of suitable interventions. This study explores mortality causes among a cohort of PWUO in the take-home naloxone (THN) program.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to analyse sick leave in generalized pustular psoriasis, the most severe form of pustular psoriasis. Prolonged sick leave of >14 days was analysed for 502 patients with generalized pustular psoriasis compared with controls with psoriasis vulgaris and matched controls from the general population. Using data from the Swedish National Patient Register, and the Longitudinal integrated database for health insurance and labour market studies, the study estimated the mean number of sick leave days in the year of first diagnosis of generalized pustular psoriasis (index year) and for 2 years before and after the index year.
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