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Senter for medisinsk etikk
Universitetet i Oslo
Forfatterbidrag: design, datainnsamling, tolkning, revisjon og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.
Reidar Pedersen er ph.d., lege og professor.
Articles by Reidar Pedersen
Advance care planning towards the end of life
- Hege Ihle-Hansen,
- Håkon Ihle-Hansen,
- Siri Rostoft,
- John Munkhaugen,
- Siri Færden Westbye,
- Maria Romøren,
- Trygve Johannes Lereim Sævareid,
- Linn Brøderud,
- Karin Berg Hermansen,
- Marie Hamilton Larsen,
- Astrid Klopstad Wahl,
- Marc Ahmed,
- Reidar Pedersen
01.11.2024:
The Norwegian Directorate of Health recently launched national clinical guidelines on advance care planning (ACP) for patients with a short life expectancy (1). ACP is a communication process about the patient's values and wishes for involvement and future treatment and care. Its goal is to ensure...
Advance care planning in Norwegian nursing homes
- Elisabeth Gjerberg,
- Lillian Lillemoen,
- Kristin Weaver,
- Reidar Pedersen,
- Reidun Førde
21.03.2017:
In 2013, approximately 47 % of all deaths in Norway occurred in nursing homes (1). An increasing proportion of nursing home patients with cognitive failure (2) and a high number of critical events, such as acute deterioration in the health condition, represent challenges in terms of providing care...
One patient, two worlds – coordination between nursing home and hospital doctors
- Maria Romøren,
- Reidar Pedersen,
- Reidun Førde
02.02.2017:
Doctors who work with elderly, ill patients need to take account of numerous concerns, and collaboration with other agencies is often required. Patients are entitled to clinically adequate and empathic health care, which must be both beneficial and cost-effective (1, 2). As a main rule, treatment...