Effects of competition and bundled payment on the performance of hip replacement surgery in Stockholm, Sweden: results from a quasi-experimental study by Fanny Goude, Göran Garellick, Clas Rehnberg, Mikko Peltola, Henrik Malchau, Sverre Kittelsen

“…The final study sample consisted of 85 275 hip replacement surgeries, where the exposure group consisted of 14 570 surgeries (n=6380 prereform and n=8190 postreform) and the control group consisted of 70 705 surgeries (n=32 799 prereform and n=37 906 postreform).Intervention A reform involving patient choice, free entry of new providers and a bundled payment model for hip replacement surgery, which came into force in 2009 in Region Stockholm, Sweden.Outcome measures Performance is measured as length of stay of the surgical admission, adverse event rate within 90 days following surgery and patient satisfaction 1 year postsurgery.Results The reform successfully improved the adverse event rate (1.6 percentage reduction, p<0.05). …”
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Assessing Associations of Nurse‐Managed Hypertension Care on Pharmacotherapy, Lifestyle Counseling, and Prevalence of Comorbid Cardiometabolic Diseases in All Patients With Hypertension That Are Treated in Primary Care in Stockholm, Sweden by Charlotte Ivarsson, Monica Bergqvist, Per Wändell, Sebastian Lindblom, Anders Norrman, Julia Eriksson, Jan Hasselström, Christina Sandlund, Axel C. Carlsson

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Identification of robust and abundant reference transcripts for EV mRNA cargo normalization by Antje M. Zickler, Radosław Grochowski, André Görgens, Erik Bäcklin, Maximilian Kordes, J.-Matthias Löhr, Joel Z. Nordin, Samir EL Andaloussi, Daniel W. Hagey

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Genetic Variations and mRNA Expression of NRF2 in Parkinson’s Disease by Caroline Ran, Karin Wirdefeldt, Lovisa Brodin, Mehrafarin Ramezani, Marie Westerlund, Fengqing Xiang, Anna Anvret, Thomas Willows, Olof Sydow, Anders Johansson, Dagmar Galter, Per Svenningsson, Andrea Carmine Belin

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Corrigendum to “Protective Effect of the HIF-1A Pro582Ser Polymorphism on Severe Diabetic Retinopathy” by Neda Rajamand Ekberg, Sofie Eliasson, Young Wen Li, Xiaowei Zheng, Katerina Chatzidionysiou, Henrik Falhammar, Harvest F. Gu, Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina

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Experimental drought and soil amendments affect grassland above- and belowground vegetation but not soil carbon stocks by D. Guasconi, D. Guasconi, S. A. O. Cousins, S. A. O. Cousins, S. Manzoni, S. Manzoni, N. Roth, N. Roth, G. Hugelius, G. Hugelius

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Multigenerational family coaggregation study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and cardiometabolic disorders by David Mataix-Cols, Christian Rück, Lorena Fernández de la Cruz, Kayoko Isomura, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian M D’Onofrio, Anna Sidorchuk, Zheng Chang, James J Crowley, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Isabell Brikell, Josep Pol-Fuster, Anna Holmberg, Lina Martinsson

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Revisiting the Link Between HLA‐DRB1 Alleles and Autoantibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association of non‐Shared Epitope Alleles *09 and *15 With High Levels of Anti–Citrullinate... by Denis Lagutkin, Luis Panaifo, Ahmad‐Fauzi Nurul‐Aain, Lena Israelsson, Monika Hansson, Karin Lundberg, Lars Alfredsson, Johan Askling, RACI consortium, Lars Klareskog, Chun‐Lai Too, Leonid Padyukov

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Integrated treatment of depression and moderate to severe alcohol use disorder in women shows promise in routine alcohol use disorder care – a pilot study by Anna Persson, Anna Persson, Daniel Wallhed Finn, Alice Broberg, Amanda Westerberg, Åsa Magnusson, Åsa Magnusson, Olof Molander

“…A pilot study was conducted to investigate the feasibility, credibility, patient satisfaction, preliminary effect, and potential negative effects of an integrated treatment for depression and alcohol use disorder, which has shown promising results in an earlier pilot trial.MethodsThe study was conducted at an outpatient unit in Stockholm, Sweden. Women (n=7) with current depression and alcohol use disorder were offered integrated group treatment that included evidence-based treatment for depression and alcohol use disorder. …”
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Polypeptide Expression in Prostate Hyperplasia and Prostate Adenocarcinoma by Ayodele Alaiya, Uwe Roblick, Lars Egevad, Adelaide Carlsson, Bo Franzén, Daniela Volz, Sören Huwendiek, Stig Linder, Gert Auer

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Prognostic factors for successful extubation in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia by A. Rannebro, C. Mesas-Burgos, C. Mesas-Burgos, U. Fläring, U. Fläring, S. Eksborg, S. Eksborg, J. Berner, J. Berner

“…The aim of this study was to describe patient characteristics and risk factors for failed extubation and to evaluate predictive factors for successful weaning.MethodsWe performed a retrospective study in a single centre tertiary pediatric intensive care unit in Stockholm, Sweden. CDH-patients (n = 38), aged 0–28 days, with extubation events were identified from 2017 to 2019. …”
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Associations of infection burden with Kawasaki disease in a population-based setting during 30 years by Johannes Mofors, Håkan Eliasson, Gunnar Bergman, Sven-Erik Sonesson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Göran Elinder, André Rudolph, Bodil Schiller

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Possible Involvement of a Mitochondrial Translation Initiation Factor 3 Variant Causing Decreased mRNA Levels in Parkinson's Disease by Anna Anvret, Caroline Ran, Marie Westerlund, Ann-Christin Thelander, Olof Sydow, Charlotta Lind, Anna Håkansson, Hans Nissbrandt, Dagmar Galter, Andrea Carmine Belin

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Changes in Index of Microcirculatory Resistance during PCI in the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery in Relation to Total Length of Implanted Stents by Christina Ekenbäck, Fadi Jokhaji, Nikolaos Östlund-Papadogeorgos, Habib Mir-Akbari, Rikard Linder, Nils Witt, Mattias Törnerud, Bassem Samad, Jonas Persson

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Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Swedish Werlabs cohort based on self-initiated health screening: cohort profile by Peter Ueda, Kerstin Brismar, Anna Norhammar, Daniel Peter Andersson, Hannah Coudé Adam, Omid Hajimirsadeghi, Lovisa Krantz, Nadia Bandstein Forsberg

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Laminin 521 Stabilizes the Pluripotency Expression Pattern of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Initially Derived on Feeder Cells by Halima Albalushi, Magdalena Kurek, Leif Karlsson, Luise Landreh, Kristín Rós Kjartansdóttir, Olle Söder, Outi Hovatta, Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

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Genetic insights into psychotic major depressive disorder: bridging the mood-psychotic disorder spectrumResearch in context by Thuy-Dung Nguyen, Joeri J. Meijsen, Robert Sigström, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Ying Xiong, Arvid Harder, Kaarina Kowalec, Joëlle A. Pasman, Carolina Scarpa, Elin Hörbeck, Lina Jonsson, Sara Hägg, Niamh Mullins, Kevin S. O’Connell, Christina Dalman, Dorte Helenius, Richard Zetterberg, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Ole A. Andreassen, Thomas Werge, Alfonso Buil, Mikael Landén, Patrick F. Sullivan, Yi Lu

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Validity assessment of the POLARS score tool in the prediction of post rectal cancer surgery LARS score in a population-based Swedish cohort by Asif Johar, Pernilla Lagergren, Boglarka Rethy, Caroline Nordenvall, Emil Pieniowski, Gabriella Jansson-Palmer, Mirna Abraham-Nordling

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Effect of Parental Migration Background on Childhood Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Body Mass Index by Mohsen Besharat Pour, Anna Bergström, Matteo Bottai, Inger Kull, Magnus Wickman, Niclas Håkansson, Alicja Wolk, Tahereh Moradi

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Exercise-induced methylation of the Serhl2 promoter and implication for lipid metabolism in rat skeletal muscle by Mutsumi Katayama, Kazuhiro Nomura, Jonathan M. Mudry, Alexander V. Chibalin, Anna Krook, Juleen R. Zierath

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