55 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-bjo-10.1177_03080226241241991 – Supplemental material for Youth mentoring: A new holistic intervention targeting the needs of young persons with acquired brain injury
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-bjo-10.1177_03080226241241991 for Youth mentoring: A new holistic intervention targeting the needs of young persons with acquired brain injury by Lene Odgaard, Mette Ryssel Bystrup, Jørgen Feldbæk Nielsen and Henriette Holm Stabel in British Journal of Occupational Therapy</p
Surviving severe traumatic brain injury in Denmark: incidence and predictors of highly specialized rehabilitation
No full textLene Odgaard,1 Ingrid Poulsen,2 Lars Peter Kammersgaard,2 Søren Paaske Johnsen,3 Jørgen Feldbæk Nielsen,1 1Hammel Neurorehabilitation Center and University Research Clinic, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 2Department of Neurorehabilitation, TBI and Research Unit on Brain injury rehabilitation (RUBRIC), Glostrup Hospital, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Purpose: To identify all hospitalized patients surviving severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Denmark and to compare these patients to TBI patients admitted to highly specialized rehabilitation (HS-rehabilitation). Patients and methods: Patients surviving severe TBI were identified from The Danish National Patient Registry and The Danish Head Trauma Database. Overall incidence rates of surviving severe TBI and incidence rates of admission to HS-rehabilitation after severe TBI were estimated and compared. Patient-related predictors of no admission to HS-rehabilitation among patients surviving severe TBI were identified using multivariable logistic regression. Results: The average incidence rate of surviving severe TBI was 2.3 per 100,000 person years. Incidence rates of HS-rehabilitation were generally stable around 2.0 per 100,000 person years. Overall, 84% of all patients surviving severe TBI were admitted to HS-rehabilitation. Female sex, older age, and non-working status pre-injury were independent predictors of no HS-rehabilitation among patients surviving severe TBI. Conclusion: The incidence rate of hospitalized patients surviving severe TBI was stable in Denmark and the majority of the patients were admitted to HS-rehabilitation. However, potential inequity in access to HS-rehabilitation may still be present despite a health care system based on equal access for all citizens. Keywords: database, health care disparities, registries, validity 
Prevalence and association of oral candidiasis with dysphagia in individuals with acquired brain injury
No full textSurvey of oral nursing care attitudes, knowledge and practices in a neurorehabilitation setting
No full textIncidence of joint replacement surgery among biologics and non-biologics treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis:a propensity score matched cohort study from denmark
No full textBackground Biologics have improved several clinical, patient-reported and radiological outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but little is known about the potential impact on the need for joint replacement surgery.Objectives To investigate the incidence of joint replacement surgery among biologics treated compared with biologics naïve patients with RA.Methods A nationwide, register-based propensity score matched cohort study. RA patients registered between 2006 and 2016 in the DANBIO register with a disease duration ≤ 2 years were identified. Patients initiating their first treatment series with biologics were followed up to 10 years for a first joint replacement of the hip, knee, shoulder, elbow and finger/wrist. Biologics naïve patients were followed up for the same outcome from their first clinical visit registered in DANBIO. Following a 1:n propensity score matching, Cox-models were undertaken to calculate the hazard ratio (HR) for a first joint replacement surgery among biologics compared with non-biologics treated RA patients. Further, subgroup analyses based on within-strata propensity score matched patients were carried out. All information on surgical outcomes was obtained in the Danish National Patient Registry.Results In total, 1187 biologics treated were matched with 3666 non-biologics treated patients (See Table). View this table:Abstract THU0059 – Table1 Baseline characteristics of biologics treated and biologics naïve patients with rheumatoid arthritis and a disease duration &lt; 2 years registered in DANBIO between 2006 and 2016.During follow-up, 43 biologics-treated and 124 naive patients had a first joint replacement surgery corresponding to an overall HR of 0.95 (0.65 to 1.40) for biologics treated compared with naïve patients (Figure 1). Patients with a DAS28-CRP &lt; 4.6 at start of follow-up (low and moderate disease activity)1, biologics treated had a lower risk of joint replacements compared with biologics naïve patients.Conclusion In this nationwide Danish cohort study, there was no difference in the incidence of joint replacement surgery among newly diagnosed RA patients selected for treatment with biologics compared with patients naïve to biologics.Abstract THU0059 – Figure 1 References [1] Fleischmann, et al. DAS28-CRP and DAS28-ESR cut-offs for high disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis are not interchangeable. RMD Open 2017;3:2–6.Disclosure of Interests René Cordtz: None declared, Samuel Hawley: None declared, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra Grant/research support from: Grants from Amgen, UCB Biopharma and Servier outside the submitted work, Consultant for: UCB Biopharma, Speakers bureau: Amgen, Lars Erik Kristensen Grant/research support from: UCB, Biogen, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis, Consultant for: Consultant for AbbVie, Amgen, Biogen, BMS, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, and UCB Pharma., Speakers bureau: Pfizer, AbbVie, Amgen, UCB, BMS, Biogen, MSD, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Company, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Søren Overgaard: None declared, Anders Odgaard: None declared, Lene Dreyer Consultant for: MSD, UCB and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Speakers bureau: MSD, UCB and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Speakers bureau: UCB, MSD, Eli Lilly and Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Worldviews Of The Greenlanders: An Inuit Arctic Perspective. By Birgitte Sonne
No full textIn this book the author brings together all the relevant sources about the cosmology of the Greenlandic Inuit, comparing Alaskan, Eastern Inuit, and Siberian sources.This work allows access to material that is, for most people, otherwise difficult to access, and it provides valuable new insights. If anybody thought that the Greenlandic pre-colonial religion was in any way poor or simple, their view will be thoroughly shaken after reading this book.The author states that one purpose of this work was to provide a Greenland companion to the fairly recent publications about the cosmologies of Canadian and Alaskan Inuit/Yupiit, and all themes are discussed with references to the works of her counterparts in Alaska and Canada and to many other researchers.<br/
Return to Work After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Diverse Labour Market and Welfare State Contexts
No full textInformal Monograph on Riverine Sand Dunes
No full textThis report presents an investigation of riverine sand dunes and includes an extensive literature review on the subject. It was concluded that the principal mechanisms responsible for river bed instability, which results in the production of ripples, dunes, etc., are fairly well understood. However, several of the key constituent processes are not well formulated. Principal among these are the phase shifts that occur between the local sediment discharge, the local near-bed velocity, local bed-profile displacement, and local bed shear stress. The reasons for the current deficiencies in the theoretical models are discussed and are concluded to stem from the difficulties inherent to analysis of nonuniform, turbulent, boundary-layer-type flows. Several existing theories for prediction of dune height were verified. None of the five published predictors evaluated was found to be satisfactory. A new, "inverse" model for prediction of dune height was developed
Optimal Wind Farm Lifetime Power Production
No full textThis project is a collaboration between Goldwind, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), of which focusing in developing an optimization model that could determinate the optimal operation schedule for wind turbine under the uncertainty of the electricity price and limitation in life-time equivalent fatigue loads, for the purpose of improving and maximizing the revenue or cash flow for wind farm project.The project comprises of two main parts, including the design and validation of up- and de-rated operation modes, and the model development and optimization of the revenue. The design of the different operation modes provide varies rated power without sacrificing the life-time structural integrity, as such offer extra flexibility in wind turbine operation schedule according to the fluctuation in electricity price. Life-time equivalent loads would be calculated for the different operation modes design and a weighting factor, that indicate the rate of fatigue consumption relatively to the normal operation, would be computed and used in the optimization process. An optimization model is developed based on the turbine structural constraints as well as the financial profile. The optimization model processes the electricity price data and other wind turbine data, for example the fatigue consumption, to reproduce the optimal operation schedule and operation price thresholds that would yield utmost financial benefits.The optimizer has a proven performance improvement in revenue generation of 1.5% and 5% reduction in the project related interest payment under one of the case study under electricity price uncertainty. The model is effective in scheduling the turbine operation upon the varying electricity price. This optimization model is providing game changing insights and operation strategies that could be used throughout the turbine life-time under the ever changing electricity price of the energy market. And further drive down the cost of energy in the highly competitive market. By improvising continuous input to the optimizer including bending moment sensors inputs, the optimization process could reproduce a more accurate revenue improvement.European Wind Energy Masters (EWEM
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