Health status of regularly physically active persons with spinal cord injury.

Study Design: A non-controlled cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To make a descriptive examination of health status in persons with paraplegia and tetraplegia who exercise regularly according to Canadian guidelines.

Settings: Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

[Teenagers with piercing and tattooing].

Background: The search for social identity seems important to young people's efforts at finding a social practice that fulfills their own needs. "Body art", i.e.

Epidemiological investigation of risk factors for campylobacter colonization in Norwegian broiler flocks.

An epidemiological investigation was conducted to identify risk factors related to hygiene and husbandry practices which determine the introduction of Campylobacter spp. into broiler chicken flocks. All 176 broiler farms in an area in southeastern Norway participated in the study.

[Patients in Norwegian hospitals. Length of stay and patterns of use].

All 633,987 periods of admission to Norwegian general hospitals in 1991 were analyzed. The length of stay increases considerably with the patient's age. 80-year old patients stay three times as long in hospital as five-year old patients.

[Experiences with financing of hospital services based on diagnosis related groups in the USA].

In 1983 Medicare in the US started to use the DRG system as a basis for a prospective system of reimbursement for treatment of patients at hospitals providing acute care. The consequences were as follows: Lengths of stay were markedly reduced, and the number of admissions and the occupancy rate went down. On the other hand the proportion of readmissions increased, whilst use of home health care and nursing homes became more common.