Mette Kalager

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Mette Kalager er lege og professor ved Institutt for helse og samfunn, Universitetet i Oslo og Avdeling for transplantasjonsmedisin, Oslo universitetssykehus. Hun leder forskergruppen Klinisk effektforskning og er også medisinsk redaktør i Tidsskriftet.

Articles by Mette Kalager

Surgical treatment of benign colorectal polyps 2008–21

Jens Aksel Nilsen,
Linn Bernklev,
Michael Bretthauer,
Mette Kalager,
Henriette C. Jodal,
Magnus Løberg,
Øyvind Holme,
Frederik Emil Juul,
Svein Oskar Frigstad

04.09.2024: Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer globally, and the incidence in Norway is one of the highest in the world (1). Colorectal polyps can potentially develop into colorectal cancer. Until the 1980s, the standard treatment for large colorectal polyps was surgical resection of the...

Measuring broad-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitals with established versus new indicators

Dagfinn Skaare,
Anja Hannisdal,
Mette Kalager,
Dag Berild

25.04.2023: Antimicrobial resistance is a threat to global public health and is driven mainly by use of antibiotics (1). One of the key goals of the 'Action Plan against Antibiotic Resistance in the Norwegian Health Service' was therefore to reduce the use of five selected groups of broad-spectrum antibiotics...

Incentives and participation in a medical survey

Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein,
Anders Huitfeldt,
Magnus Løberg,
Hans-Olov Adami,
Kjetil Garborg,
Mette Kalager,
Michael Bretthauer

05.07.2016: High participation rates in surveys and thus more representative data on health, disease and risk have helped raise the quality of epidemiological research in Norway (1, 2) and the other Scandinavian countries (3) – (5). This has provided us with a unique opportunity to understand disease risks in...