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The UiS based research centre SHARE was established in 2017. Together with the national partner at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Gjøvik (NTNU Gjøvik), the centre constitutes Norway’s largest research group studying quality and safety in healthcare.
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She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a tool that can help doctors make better and faster decisions when a cerebral stroke is suspected.
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In the eHealth @ Hospital 2- Home study we have asked two different patient populations and two different clinical groups to help us in exploring how a remote patient monitoring intervention with additional nurse support might alter people’s self-care abilities after a hospitalisation.
PROFRES Doctoral Research School
Autumn PhD Symposium
Bodø 21th – 24th October 2024
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SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare recently gathered researchers and health care professionals to an open seminar about the future of leadership in healthcare. The seminar concludes a full week of activities related to the Support4Resilience project.
What ethical challenges can arise when implementing technological solutions in healthcare services? The research group E-DigiCare aims to explore the ethical aspects and consequences of developing and implementing digital health and healthcare services.
Activities within the research group EduWorkSoCo exhibit a thematic coherence centered around the following three perspectives: Graduate employment and entrepreneurship, international higher education and female researchers within the academic working environment.
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At a time when healthcare is at a crossroads, the "Global State of Patient Safety 2023 – Supporting Leaders" seminar hosted by SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, served as the perfect precursor to the week-long kick-off of the EU project, Support4Resilience.
This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
Doctors and surgeons from Stavanger University Hospital participate in the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project. This blog post features insights from two of these professionals, shedding light on their roles within the project and the motivation behind their involvement.
The eHealth@hospital-2-home-project has published the protocol for the randomised control trial of the nurse-assisted eHealth intervention for patients with heart failure and colorectal cancer post-hospital discharge.
Master’s research in the eHealth@Hospital-2-Home project explores the impact of the nurse assisted digital health intervention on the family members of participants in the feasibility study.
Linn Tjemsland and Linn Elisabeth Furseth are both intensive care nurses who work in the cardiac intermediate unit at Stavanger University Hospital. In 2021 they took the opportunity to expand their nursing experience by being involved in the conduct of a research project.
This blog will provide a short summary of presentations from members of the eHealth @ hospital-2-home research group.
This article describes the second major phase of an intervention designed to enhance patient experiences during the critical transition from hospital to home.
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The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences research and artificial intelligence and science fiction.
The use of digital apps and wearables to track our health information is on the rise. Thus, eHealth is a resource that may promote health management and patient engagement.
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Students and researchers at UiS are convinced that exoskeletons can be a useful aid for operating room nurses during long operations.
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During the conference “From Knowledge to Action – the role of carers is changing?” in Oslo on March 16 Stecy Yghemonos held the presentation “A European Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers”.
Knowledge is most valuable when it is shared generously – read the annual report for Centre for Resilience in Healthcare.
Knowledge is most valuable when it is shared generously – read the annual report for Centre for Resilience in Healthcare.
SHARE collaborates with world leading researchers and research groups in the field of patient safety.
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The Network is a facilitator for patient and stakeholder involvement in SHARE. The Network representatives participate in national and international program committees as well as contributing to stakeholder gatherings such as annual Network seminars.
The SHARE research projects reflect the diverse topics and challenges facing healthcare systems and healthcare workers across a broad contextual and organizational spectrum. Here you can read more extensively about five of the SHARE centre's larger research projects and their respective activities and publications during 2023.
A new study describes important aspects in the development of a digital follow-up service for patients in need of long-term follow-up in the specialist healthcare service.
Drinking juice with a lot of antioxidants, for example from blueberries, can be beneficial in preventing dementia. New research at UiS will examine this in more detail by analyzing gut bacteria from elderly people who are at risk of developing Alzheimer's.
At the Stavanger Baby and Child Lab, within the Department of Social Studies at UiS, we investigate how infants and toddlers develop their understanding of the (social) world.
The SAFETY project, funded under the program ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliances is intended to widen the learning process in the medical field with high fidelity guided experiences.
This review suggests that patients with heart failure should receive prompt follow-up after hospitalization, and eHealth interventions have the potential to improve their quality of life.
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Researchers from “Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices” were interviewed and quoted for an article and television segment in TV2 News about challenges to the implementation of welfare technology.
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Maja Hassel, next of kin and caregiver, thinks this year’s conference theme "Caregivers - from extra work to sound involvement?" is very relevant. However, she believes that not enough is being done on a regular basis to include caregiver perspectives.
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Rosalynn Austin from the University of Southampton visited the Department of Public Health to discuss health promotion for people with health challenges. She comments on benefits of researcher mobility.
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After completing their PhD-projects on childbirth and newborn resuscitation at the University of Stavanger, the four Tanzanian doctors returned to Tanzania where they are leading the Safer Births Bundle of Care programme. The World Bank has now awarded NOK 125 million in total to the project.
The purpose of the new research project is to support advancement of Blastocystis research by bringing together professionals from various
disciplines and countries.
The team consists of employees from the University of South-Eastern Norway, Nord University, the University of Agder, the University of Stavanger, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Volda University College, Østfold University College and Molde University College.
Sina Furnes Øyri and Inger Johanne Bergerød have been awarded a contract research project on a nationwide supervision of the child welfare service's follow-up of children in foster homes in 2022-2023.
The project will explore the impact of an upcoming country wide system audit on the child welfare services’ management and work practices. The project will focuse on the work process related to the follow-ups of children living in foster homes after proven regulatory breaches.
Future Literacy Lab on digital healthcare was carried out on 8 October 2021 in collaboration between NIFU and UiS as a part of the research project “Releasing the power of users: articulating user interest to accelerate new innovative pathways in the digital health and welfare sector”.
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University of Stavanger (UiS) and Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) will work together to find solutions for patients with chronic intestinal diseases.
SHARE at UiS arranged a fully digital international symposium for early career research at the end of November.
The NewbornTime project aims to improve newborn care using artificial intelligence (AI) for activity and event recognition taken from videos in the time both during and immediately after birth.
In this project the main aim is to procure knowledge about the concept user participation applied on infants.
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Could the bacteria in our guts help us improve cancer treatment? This is one of the key questions in a new research collaboration between University of Stavanger and Stavanger University Hospital.
Effective teamwork and sufficient communication are critical components essential to patient safety in today’s specialized and complex healthcare services. Team training is important for an improved efficiency in inter-professional teamwork within hospitals.
How can we achieve better health for humans, animals, and the environment? This is the challenge students and researchers will work on when the education project NorBra receives support for four new years.
In the eHealth @ Hospital-2-Home project, a digital health service for chronically ill patients will be developed, and new forms of interaction between patients and health personnel will be tested.
UiS researchers at the Faculty of Health has identified the urgent need to develop an educational program for Breast Cancer (BC) survivors. Known as Breast Cancer School, it has enhanced breast cancer survivors' quality of life based on patient participation and interaction with experts and peers.
How do microbes affect human health, animal health and food security?
The NewbornTime project is about improved newborn care by using artificial intelligence (AI) for activity and event recognition in video from the time during and after birth.
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Two medical emergencies have been outlined in this article. The SAFETY Project is about trying to understand different types of emergencies and which skills healthcare professionals require.
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Here we present a project that will substantially build on the findings of SAFETY+ and offers possibilities for future dissemination activities for SAFETY+.
The project shall improve the quality and internationalization of education in social work and sociology at the partner institutions, through student and staff mobility between Cuba and Norway in both directions.
SHARE is led by the University of Stavanger. NTNU Gjøvik and Oslo University Hospital are main partners.
The project aims to strengthen the capacity and quality of nursing and midwifery education at partner universities in Malawi and Tanzania.
COVCOM aims to develop effective, evidence-based video communication for translating complex but important health messages about infectious diseases and pandemics.
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The University of Stavanger has received NOK 18.7 million from Norad to implement simulation-based education in nursing and midwifery with partner universities in Malawi and Tanzania.
We aim to answer following RQ: How to enable the eco-system to ensure diffusion of responsible digital innovations in welfare sector?
We aim to answer following RQ: How to create a boundary innovation space to activate user driven or user-inspired innovations?
We aim to answer following RQ: What are attitudes, concerns and expectations of users in relation to welfare technology?
The research group lead by Hanne R. Hagland studies metabolic flexibility in cell systems.
The Pumps and Pipes initiative fosters collaboration and transfer of knowledge between oil and gas and the health sector.
This research program area is aimed at preparing better graduate and postgraduate candidates.
By developing a new joint curriculum of PhD courses, candidates will be better equipped in areas of innovation and science.
This research project will contribute to strengthen access to and the quality of healthcare services for adolescents who have mental health problems and conditions. InvolveMENT focuses on user involvement within the healthcare services.
The QUALinCLINstud project addresses the urgent need for improved quality in clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in nursing homes.
The primary goal of the Resilience in Healthcare (RiH) project is to reform the quality of current healthcare systems by establishing a new and comprehensive Resilience in Healthcare framework.
Many leaders in primary care experience a lack of effective tools in dealing with quality and safety issues to ensure that patients receive the best possible care and safe healthcare services.
A project focusing on the health care sector and how to amplify the voice of the users when applying digital technology.
Look to Scandinavia – the museum of the good parts of the capitalism, says Vegard Bye in this interview by Siv Oltedal.
Be inspired by MFamily PhD stories from the Netherlands, Norway and Northern Ireland!
The Cognitive Lab is the only arena at UiS where all faculties meet and collaborate on research at the highest level. The lab provides the natural sciences with a meeting place for the health sciences, psychology and various disciplines that study social conditions, human behaviour and learning.
Colab is a group of researchers exploring challenges related to poor mental health among criminals and prison inmates, something that might affect social security and the risk of new crimes.
Societal changes requires adapting welfare services and updated knowledge. The researchers at UiS are exploring several issues related to Nav, mental health, prison care and child welfare, among other things.
The PhD programme in Health and Medicine is a doctoral programme at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Health and Medicine describes a field of research which works to improve the medical services and thus public health.
Robert Moshiro defended his thesis on making births in low-income countries safer.
The research project Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices will further develop care ethics in an increasingly technological health and welfare sector.
Childbearing - Qualitative Research Network (BfiN) is an international research network which aims to promote and develop international cooperation in the field of qualitative childbearing research.
The research group PARTAKE focuses on community participation as a goal and means to achieve health, coping, good services and participation in working life.
At BMDLab we deal with biomedical data analysis and medical applications. We employ signal- and image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistical analysis.
The aim of our interdisciplinary research is to develop new knowledge of relational work in health and welfare professions such as nursing, medicine, and social work.
Knowledge of patients' life experiences strengthens patient care. By exploring the patient's own experiences of health, illness and suffering, we want to strengthen patient care with a special emphasis on meetings between patients, health care professionals and carers.
We develop knowledge that examines the effect of digital learning resources and simulation on quality and competence in health education and clinical practice.
The network brings together researchers, clinical practitioners, and representatives of other stakeholder groups to strengthen carer research.
Health-promoting perspectives are becoming increasingly important for people living with various health challenges. Development of knowledge and interventions are necessary to enable people to cope with everyday life and to promote health.
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The University of Stavanger took part in INTED in Valencia to present the DIGISIM app, a three-year long development project co-funded by the EU. The result is an interactive simulation app that makes it easier for students to train on practical nursing procedures on their own.