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Implementation of a computerized alcohol advice concept in routine emergency carePer Nilsen
Linkoping University, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Community Medicine, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Int Emerg Nurs 17:113-21. 2009..There is a growing body of evidence for computer-generated advice for many health behaviours. This study evaluated the implementation of a computerized concept to provide tailored advice on alcohol in a Swedish emergency department (ED)...
Accounting for the role of habit in behavioural strategies for injury preventionPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 15:33-40. 2008..Integrating the concepts of strong and weak habits with upstream and downstream strategies, a framework is presented for tailoring strategies to the habit strength of the target behaviour...
A systematic review of emergency care brief alcohol interventions for injury patientsPer Nilsen
Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
J Subst Abuse Treat 35:184-201. 2008..Variations in the study protocol, alcohol-related recruitment criteria, screening and assessment methods, and injury severity limit the specific conclusions that can be drawn...
Uncovering evidence on community-based injury prevention: A review of programme effectiveness and factors influencing effectivenessPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 14:241-50. 2007..To advance the field, researchers and systematic reviews need to include evidence on factors that may explain how the effects were achieved...
Linking drinking to injury--causal attribution of injury to alcohol intake among patients in a Swedish emergency roomPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 14:93-102. 2007....
Using local injury surveillance for community-based injury prevention: an analysis of scandinavian WHO safe community and canadian safe community foundation programmesPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 58183 Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 14:35-43. 2007..Despite study limitations, such as the low response rate among Canadian programmes and a large number of non-responses to two questions, the results highlight the importance of, and need for, greater use of local injury surveillance...
Key factors influencing adoption of an innovation in primary health care: a qualitative study based on implementation theorySiw Carlfjord
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
BMC Fam Pract 11:60. 2010..The objective of this article was to apply implementation theory to identify key factors influencing the adoption of an innovation being introduced in PHC in Sweden...
Approaches to assessment of alcohol intake during pregnancy in Swedish maternity care--a national-based investigation into midwives' alcohol-related education, knowledge and practiceMarika Holmqvist
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Midwifery 26:430-4. 2010..to evaluate how much education midwives in Sweden have undertaken to help them assess alcohol intake during pregnancy, and what tools they use to identify women who may be at risk of drinking during pregnancy...
Brief interventions in routine health care: a population-based study of conversations about alcohol in SwedenPer Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Addiction 106:1748-56. 2011..To investigate how brief alcohol interventions are delivered in routine practice in the Swedish health-care system...
Alcohol consumption and motivation to reduce drinking among emergency care patients in SwedenAnna Trinks
Department of Medical and Health Science, Division of Community Medicine, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 16:133-41. 2009..There were small differences in the drinking variables and motivation to reduce drinking between injury patients and non-injury patients...
Reach and effectiveness of a computer-based alcohol intervention in a Swedish emergency roomAnna Trinks
Department of Medical and Health Science, Division of Community Medicine, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Int Emerg Nurs 18:138-46. 2010....
Frequency of heavy episodic drinking among nonfatal injury patients attending an emergency roomPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 58183 Linkoping, Sweden
Accid Anal Prev 39:757-66. 2007....
Effectiveness of community-based injury prevention. Long-term injury rate levels, changes, and trends for 14 Swedish WHO-designated Safe CommunitiesPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 58183 Linkoping, Sweden
Accid Anal Prev 39:267-73. 2007..The trends for the 14 municipalities in relation to their municipality groups showed an inconsistent pattern, with only four municipalities exhibiting overall favourable trends for the study period...
Electronic screening and brief intervention for risky drinking in Swedish university students--a randomized controlled trialDiana Stark Ekman
Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Addict Behav 36:654-9. 2011..The intervention group (IG) (n=80) received extensive normative feedback; the control group (CG) (n=78) received very brief feedback consisting of only three statements...
Strategies and goals of community-based injury prevention programmes--a mixed-methods study of 25 Scandinavian WHO Safe CommunitiesPer Nilsen
Dept of Health and Society, Div of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 13:27-33. 2006..Educational efforts were considered essential to the programmes. The programmes preferred to rely on broadly stated goals rather than specific objectives...
Asking patients about their drinking. A national survey among primary health care physicians and nurses in SwedenMarika Holmqvist
Department of Health and Society, Linkoping University, S 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Addict Behav 33:301-14. 2008....
Hazardous drinking concepts, limits and methods: low levels of awareness, knowledge and use in the Swedish populationPreben Bendtsen
Department of Medicine and Health, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Alcohol Alcohol 46:638-45. 2011..To investigate the awareness and knowledge of hazardous drinking limits among the general population in Sweden and the extent to which people estimate their alcohol consumption in standard drinks to assess their level of drinking...
Is Sweden still a role model for safety? An overview of unintentional injury data over the past two decadesDiana S Ekman
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 17:195-203. 2010..While Sweden has made remarkable progress in reducing injury-related deaths and hospitalisations, there are clear differences in risk that remain...
Is questionnaire-based alcohol counseling more effective for pregnant women than standard maternity care?Per Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 19:161-7. 2010..To compare current standard maternity care in Sweden concerning provision of alcohol advice with a more comprehensive questionnaire-based counseling model...
Towards increased alcohol intervention activity in Swedish occupational health servicesMarika Holmqvist
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 21:179-87. 2008....
Alcohol use before and during pregnancy and factors influencing change among Swedish womenPer Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 87:768-74. 2008..To investigate alcohol intake during pregnancy among women, to assess health cares providers' advice to the women and the relative importance of different factors on changes in the women's drinking...
Effectiveness of strategies to implement brief alcohol intervention in primary healthcare. A systematic reviewPer Nilsen
Department of Health and Society, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, , Sweden
Scand J Prim Health Care 24:5-15. 2006..Nevertheless, the overall effectiveness was rather modest. However, the studies examined were too heterogeneous, not scientifically rigorous enough, and applied too brief follow-up times to provide conclusive answers...
Adverse events in spine surgery in SwedenAnnica Ohrn
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping
Acta Orthop 82:727-31. 2011..By analyzing data from more than one source, we obtained a better understanding of the patterns of adverse events and outcomes after spine surgery...
Implementing brief interventions in health care: lessons learned from the Swedish Risk Drinking ProjectPer Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linköping 581 83, Sweden
Int J Environ Res Public Health 8:3609-27. 2011..Subprojects were tailored to the specific conditions of each respective setting, building on the skills the providers already had to modify existing work practices. Nurses were afforded a key role in the project...
Referral to an electronic screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary health care in sweden: impact of staff referral to the computerPreben Bendtsen
Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Science, Linkoping University, 58381 Linköping, Sweden
Int J Telemed Appl 2011:918763. 2011..Our results indicate that standalone computers with touchscreens that provide e-SBIs for risky drinking have the same effect on drinking behaviour in both staff-referred patients and self-referred patients...
The attitudes to CPAP treatment inventory: development and initial validation of a new tool for measuring attitudes to CPAP treatmentAnders Broström
Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden
J Sleep Res 20:460-71. 2011..The satisfactory measurement properties of this new pragmatic instrument are promising and indicate that ACTI can be useful in clinical practice to reliably measure attitudes to CPAP treatment...
A systematic review of motivational interviewing training for general health care practitionersLena Lindhe Söderlund
Division of Community Medicine, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Patient Educ Couns 84:16-26. 2011..This article systematically reviews empirical studies that have evaluated different aspects of motivational interviewing (MI) training for general health care professionals...
Feasibility of using motivational interviewing in a Swedish pharmacy settingLena Lindhe Söderlund
Department of Medical Health Sciences, Division of Community Medicine, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Pharm Pract 17:143-9. 2009..The aim of this study was to identify factors that impact on the feasibility of using MI with pharmacy clients in routine community pharmacy work in Sweden...
Brief alcohol intervention to prevent drinking during pregnancy: an overview of research findingsPer Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Community Medicine, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 21:496-500. 2009..Opportunities for providing alcohol interventions for pregnant women in antenatal care are also addressed...
Evaluation of community-based injury prevention programmes: methodological issues and challengesPer Nilsen
Linkoping University, Department of Health and Society IHS, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, SE 58183 Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 12:143-56. 2005..While threats to internal validity were identified in most studies, problems related to external validity and construct validity were largely overlooked by the evaluators...
Brief alcohol intervention--where to from here? Challenges remain for research and practicePer Nilsen
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Addiction 105:954-9. 2010....
Predictors of drinking during pregnancy: a systematic reviewJanna Skagerstróm
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkopings Universitet, Linkoping, Sweden
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:901-13. 2011..This review examines the predictors of prenatal alcohol use, with the long-term goal of developing more effective preventive efforts...
Patient safety dialogue: evaluation of an intervention aimed at achieving an improved patient safety cultureAnnica Ohrn
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Sweden
J Patient Saf 7:185-92. 2011..This paper evaluates the results and changes after 5 years of the Patient Safety Dialogue in 50 departments (37 medical and 13 psychiatric) in 3 hospitals...
Economic analysis of injury prevention--applying results and methodologies from cost-of-injury studiesPer Nilsen
Dept of Health and Society, Div of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 13:7-13. 2006..Locally obtained data are needed for reliable economic analyses of injury prevention interventions and programmes...
Factors associated with injuries occurring aboard vessels in Alaska: differences between residents and nonresidentsDiana Hudson
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Travel Med 13:67-72. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Alaska residents and nonresidents in this study showed significant differences in demographics, precipitating events, and injury outcomes. The findings lend support for targeted safety promotion programs...
