Lars Thomas Johansen

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Lars Thomas Johansen er spesialist i fødselshjelp og kvinnesykdommer og seniorrådgiver i Statens helsetilsyn.

Articles by Lars Thomas Johansen

Room for improvement in maternity care

Lars Thomas Johansen,
Geir Sverre Braut,
Pål Øian

10.05.2022: Adverse events still occur in maternity care, and many could be avoided. We must be better at learning from our own mistakes. Despite the high standard of maternity care in Norway, adverse events with serious outcomes for the mother and/or child sometimes occur. Reports of serious incidents in...

Are stipulated requirements for the quality of maternity care complied with?

Lars Thomas Johansen,
Aase Serine Devold Pay,
Lise Broen,
Brit Roland,
Pål Øian

18.09.2017: In 1996, the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision published the report Faglige krav til fødeinstitusjoner [Functional requirements for maternity institutions] (1). The aim was to provide an overview of the functional requirements that should apply to maternity institutions. The report recommended...

Neonatal deaths and injuries

Lars Thomas Johansen,
Pål Øian

13.12.2011: Perinatal mortality (cases of babies who die after the twenty second week of gestation or during the first week of life) has been falling steadily in Norway. In 2010 it was 4.9 ‰. Half of the deaths take place during pregnancy (1) and in the remaining cases the baby dies either during birth or in...