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Sigurd Høye er faglig redaktør, på vegne av redaksjonen for Nasjonal faglig retningslinje for antibiotikabruk i primærhelsetjenesten, allmennlege, førsteamanuensis og leder av Antibiotikasenteret for primærmedisin, Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Sigurd Høye
28.06.2021:
There is a need to strengthen the evidence base for the Norwegian antibiotics guidelines. This base should preferably be grounded in clinical efficacy. Antibiotic therapy is not a static exercise. New studies are constantly being published, old truths are challenged, bad habits – and good habits –...
Use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Hege Salvesen Blix,
- Sigurd Høye
12.02.2021:
Compared to other countries, the consumption of antibiotics in Norway is low, and the proportion of narrow-spectrum antibiotics is high (1, 2). Dispensing on prescription outside institutions accounts for 80 % of total sales (1). Since 2012, the use declined year on year until 2018, followed by a...
Myth-busting takes time
- Sigurd Høye
23.05.2017:
There are many myths surrounding antibiotics. Evidence will be required to disprove them. In the early days, antibiotics were referred to as a «magic bullet» – a projectile that spares friends and injures foes (1). Ideally, antibiotics should distinguish perfectly between «us» – our sterile...
Take, eat!
- Sigurd Høye
15.03.2016:
In what ways is a pill similar to a communion host? Easter marks the dramatic culmination of the ecclesiastical year and is the celebration of the institution of one of the church’s most important sacraments – Holy Communion. In the Norwegian Protestant church, Holy Communion includes the following...
Behind closed doors
- Sigurd Høye
22.09.2015:
We know little of what goes on behind the closed door of the GP’s office. Now and again the door should be left ajar Alone in the office with the patient, attempting to solve the problems he brings to me, I sometimes envy my colleagues at the hospital. Seen from the aspect of the one-to-one nature...
An extraordinary tale of an ordinary case
- Sigurd Høye
30.06.2015:
Case reports in medical journals often concern rare conditions that, courtesy of quick-witted doctors, are correctly diagnosed and successfully treated. The case report of Loose and co-workers is quite the opposite. It concerns a very common condition that becomes the subject of a very common...
Communicable diseases
- Sigurd Høye
10.02.2015:
We like to accuse the mass media of having a negative impact on people’s health. How dearly we would like to know whether this is actually true. Being a doctor means to communicate. Most of the consultation time is spent on transferring information – from the patients about their lives, their...
Don’t ask your doctor
- Sigurd Høye
05.08.2014:
I have often had to smile at the irony of the situation when patients fail to turn up for a consultation because they are ill. An even greater number ought to fail to turn up because they are well – well enough, that is. «Ask your doctor!» is repeated ad nauseam in TV commercials for prescription...