Una Ørvim Sølvik

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Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin

Universitetet i Bergen

Forfatterbidrag: idé, utforming/design, datainnsamling, analyse og tolkning av data, litteratursøk, utarbeiding/revisjon av manuset og godkjenning av innsendte manusversjon.

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Articles by Una Ørvim Sølvik

Self-management of INR – a focus group study

Andrea Elisabeth Dahle-Andersen,
Åshild Lunde,
Marit Holm Sølsnes,
Una Ørvim Sølvik

08.05.2025: In Norway, conventional anticoagulant therapy with warfarin (a vitamin K antagonist (VKA)) is checked by the patient's general practitioner (GP) approximately once a month using International Normalised Ratio (INR) testing. The blood test indicates the effect of warfarin by measuring how long the...

Type 2 diabetes in general practice – a focus-group study

Lisa Hare,
Anette Hetlevik,
Rochini Yogarajan,
Reidun Lisbet Skeide Kjome,
Una Ørvim Sølvik

07.04.2021: Approximately 216 000 persons have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Norway (1, 2). In 2016, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health estimated that type 2 diabetes was the ninth most frequent cause of non-fatal health loss in Norway (2), and in 2019, a total of 556 amputations were performed...