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Mette Brekke er spesialist i allmennmedisin, tidligere fastlege og professor emerita ved Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Mette Brekke
What will general practice be like in the future?
- Mette Brekke,
- Ingvild Vatten Alsnes
14.01.2019:
Making predictions is difficult, especially about the future. But how do we want general practice/family medicine to develop? Will doctors and patients continue to meet mainly in person? Probably, but hardly to the same extent as today. In an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine from...
Chronic fatigue in adult cancer survivors
- Kristin Valborg Reinertsen,
- Jon Håvard Loge,
- Mette Brekke,
- Cecilie E. Kiserud
27.10.2017:
Pronounced fatigue including tiredness and lack of energy are common both during and after cancer treatment. Between 15–35 % of adult cancer survivors experience chronic fatigue. Chronic fatigue has a negative impact on affected individuals' social, occupational and general functioning, and may lead...
Does the editorial committee still have a role to play?
- Ola Dale,
- Erik Magnus Berntsen,
- Mette Brekke,
- Anne Høye,
- Ole-Erik Iversen,
- Ane Brandtzæg Næss,
- Torben Wisborg
18.09.2017:
Established 80 years ago, the editorial committee of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association has been reorganised for a new era. The editorial committee was established in 1938 (1). In the preceding years, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association had been edited by the editor-in...
We must educate the doctors that society needs
- Mette Brekke
23.08.2016:
If the future requirements for medical services outside of hospitals are to be met, the strategy must be established now, and it will need to cost money. Why do so many clever and dedicated young people wish to study medicine? When I have asked students this question over the years, I have received...
Living conditions in the districts of Oslo and poisonings by substances of abuse treated at casualty clinic level
- Maja Akopian,
- Odd Martin Vallersnes,
- Dag Jacobsen,
- Øivind Ekeberg,
- Mette Brekke
17.11.2015:
Acute poisonings are a serious health problem and often require treatment in hospital and/or at the pre-hospital level (1) – (3). There seems to be an inverse correlation between both the incidence and the degree of severity of acute poisonings on the one hand and socioeconomic status on the other...
General practitioners’ views on drug-assisted rehabilitation
- Helge Waal,
- Mette Brekke,
- Thomas Clausen,
- Morten Lindbæk,
- Judith Rosta,
- Ivar Skeie,
- Olaf Gjerløw Aasland
04.09.2012:
Substitution treatment with methadone or buprenorphine is currently the most common treatment for heroin dependence (1). The treatment was established in Norway as drug-assisted rehabilitation (DAR) in 1997. The model has been evaluated a number of times (2) – (5). The Directorate of Health issued...
Medical emergency care and patient contact at the Quart Rock Festival in Norway
- Holgeir Skjeie,
- Siv Nygaard,
- Henrik Stenwig Li,
- Bozidar Gardasevic,
- Arne Fetveit,
- Mette Brekke
26.06.2008:
Mass gatherings are usually defined as events attended by more than 1000 people for a specific purpose over a given period of time. Examples are sport events, political meetings and demonstrations, large religious meetings and music festivals. Sanitary arrangements during such events are often...