Nina Aass

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Nina Aass er seksjonsleder for Seksjon for lindrende behandling, Avdeling for kreftbehandling, Oslo universitetssykehus og professor ved Institutt for klinisk medisin, Universitetet i Oslo.

Articles by Nina Aass

Patient-centred care – is it possible?

Nina Aass,
Stein Kaasa

14.02.2022: We need more than simply good results from clinical trials to provide patient-centred care. 'Reporting and treating oral cavity problems is not something we do as a part of routine clinical practice, unfortunately. We should do it – but there are so many other important things that need to be done...

Symptom assessment in palliative medicine

Irmelin Bergh,
Nina Aass,
Dagny Faksvåg Haugen,
Stein Kaasa,
Marianne Jensen Hjermstad

10.01.2012: The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) is the most widely used instrument for assessing symptoms in palliative medicine. A new, revised version, ESAS-r, has recently been developed, and it is recommended that this be introduced in Norway. The alleviation of distressing symptoms plays a key...