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Articles by Pål Øian
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...
Female genital cutting in women living in Norway – consequences and treatment
- Sølvi Taraldsen,
- Katrine M. Owe,
- Anne Sejersted Bødtker,
- Ida Waagsbø Bjørntvedt,
- Birgitte Midhaug Eide,
- Marit Sandberg,
- Cecilie Therese Hagemann,
- Pål Øian,
- Siri Vangen,
- Ingvil Krarup Sørbye
02.11.2021:
Globally, more than 200 million girls and women have undergone FGC (1). This practice follows ethnic lines and is primarily embedded in culture, not religion (2). It involves interventions of varying extent and is classified into three main types (Figure 1) (3). FGC types I and II are the most...
Establishment of treatment methods without critical reflection
- Pål Øian,
- Emma Grammeltvedt,
- Ole-Erik Iversen,
- Gorm A. Grammeltvedt
18.02.2021:
New treatment methods are sometimes introduced with no knowledge of whether the method yields better results than established treatment or how frequently complications arise. In 2002, a new sterilisation method for women (Essure) became available, which was reported to be effective and result in few...
Births in Norwegian midwife-led birth units 2008–10; a population-based study
- Pål Øian,
- Olaug Margrete Askeland,
- Inger Elise Engelund,
- Brit Roland,
- Marta Ebbing
12.06.2018:
Maternity care in Norway has been a topic of discussion for decades. Internationally, the trend has been towards centralisation of childbirth services, for both financial and medical reasons. It has been maintained that centralisation ensures better utilisation of financial and staff resources and...
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...
Maternal deaths in Norway 2005–2009
- Siri Vangen,
- Liv Ellingsen,
- Alice Beathe Andersgaard,
- Anne Flem Jacobsen,
- Bjørg Lorentzen,
- Lill Trine Nyfløt,
- Astrid Betten Rygh,
- Svein Magne Skulstad,
- Christian Tappert,
- Pål Øian
29.04.2014:
Obstetric aid in Western countries has undergone major changes in the last decades and the number of women who die in connection with pregnancy has been substantially reduced. The decline in maternal deaths after the Second World War is one of the most impressive health impacts the world has ever...
Umbilical cord clamping at birth – practice in Norwegian maternity wards
- Camilla Lundberg,
- Pål Øian,
- Claus Klingenberg
26.11.2013:
The timing and practice for clamping of the umbilical cord in newborns after birth varies internationally. Modern birth monitoring (2) and baby-friendly initiatives (3) may both have an effect on practice related to clamping of the umbilical cord. Early cord clamping is often defined as clamping...
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...