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- Andersson, Gerhard
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Guided internet treatment for anxiety disorders. As effective as face-to-face therapies?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 181, s. 3-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: Guided Internet-delivered treatments were developed in the late 1990s and have since been tested in numerous controlled trials. While promising, there are yet few direct comparisons between Internet treatments and traditional face-to-face treatments. The aim of the present study is to present an overview of the evidence in the field of anxiety disorders. Method: Studies were located, including unpublished trials from our research group in Sweden. Results: Results of direct comparative trials on panic disorder (n=3) and social anxiety disorder (n=3) show equivalent outcomes. One study on specific phobia did not show equivalent outcomes with an advantage for face-to-face treatment. However, a systematic review by Cuijpers et al. (2010) found equivalent outcomes across several self-help formats, suggesting that guided self-help overall can be as affective as face-to-face treatments. Conclusion: Overall, there are still few large-scale trials and statistical power is often limited. A preliminary conclusion is that guided Internet treatment can be as effective as face-to-face treatments, but there is a need to investigate moderators and mediators of the outcome.
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- Ask, Per, et al.
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NovaMedTech - A regional program for supporting new medical technologies in personalized health care
- 2012
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 9781614990680 ; 177, s. 71-5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- NovaMedTech is an initiative funded from EU structural funds for supporting new medical technologies for personalized health care. It aims at bringing these technologies into clinical use and to the health care market. The program has participants from health care, industry and academia in East middle Sweden. The first three year period of the program was successful in terms of product concepts tried clinically, and number of products brought to a commercialization phase. Further, the program has led to a large number of scientific publications. Among projects supported, we can mention: Intelligent sensor networks; A digital pen to collect medical information about health status from patients; A web-based intelligent stethoscope; Methodologies to measure local blood flow and nutrition using optical techniques; Blood flow assessment from ankle pressure measurements; Technologies for pressure ulcer prevention; An IR thermometer for improved accuracy; A technique that identifies individuals prone to commit suicide among depressed patients; Detection of infectious disease using an electronic nose; Identification of the lactate threshold from breath; Obesity measurements using special software and MR camera; and An optical probe guided tumor resection. During the present three years period emphasis will be on entrepreneurial activities supporting the commercialization and bringing products to the market.
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- Creutzfeldt, Johan, et al.
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Using virtual world training to increase situation awareness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- 2014
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Ingår i: Medicine meets virtual reality 21. - : IOS Press. - 9781614993742 - 9781614993759 ; 196, s. 83-5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Situation awareness (SA) is a critical non-technical skill which affects outcome during emergency medical endeavors. Using a modified self-report instrument a significant increase of SA was found during multiplayer virtual world CPR team training among 12 medical students. Further a correlation between SA and attention was noted. Being a vital factor during the process of video-game play, we argue that this skill is suitably practiced using this training method.
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- Eklund, Ann-Marie, 1971
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Mobility and health information searches - a Swedish perspective
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 14th world congress on medical and health informatics, MEDINFO 2013. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. - 9781614992882 ; 192
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today the first point of contact between a patient and health care is often an internet health portal - not a human. There is also a trend towards increased use of mobile devices for internet searching. We present a study of the use of mobile vs non-mobile devices when accessing the main Swedish official health portal. Our findings indicate that there is a difference in not only when people search for health information, but also the type of information searched for using different devices. We conclude that further analysis is needed to understand these differences, and consequently that the same portal solution may not suit both mobile and non-mobile health information seekers.
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- Ekstedt, Mirjam, et al.
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Reducing Errors through a Web-Based Self-management Support System
- 2014
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Ingår i: East Meets West eSMART. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 9781614994145 - 9781614994152 ; 201, s. 328-334
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Web-based self-management support systems SMSS, can successfully assist a wide range of patients with information and self-management support. O or as a stand-alone service, are e-messages. This study describes how one component of a multi component SMSS, an e-message service, in which patients with breast cancer could direct questions to nurses, physicians or social workers at the hospital where they were being treated, had an influence on safety and continuity of care. Ninety-one dialogues consisting of 284 messages were analysed. The communications between patients and the healthcare team revealed that the e-messages service served as a means for quality assurance of information, for double-checking and for coordination of care. We give examples of how an e-mail service may improve patients' knowledge in a process of taking control over their own care – increasingly important in a time of growing complexity and specialization in healthcare. It remains to be tested whether an e-message service can improve continuity of care and prevent or mitigate medical mishaps.
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- Eriksson, Magnus, et al.
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A 6 degrees-of-freedom haptic milling simulator for surgical training of vertebral operations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 173, s. 126-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the research presented here, the aim has been to develop a haptic milling simulator for surgical training of vertebral operations. One central goal has been to create a simulator that gives the user a realistic impression of contacts with, and milling of, a virtually represented bone tissue model. A new 6 degrees-of-freedom haptic algorithm for milling is implemented together with new 6 degrees-of-freedom haptic device.
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- Forsslund, Jonas, et al.
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The effect of haptic degrees of freedom on task performance in virtual surgical environments
- 2013
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Ingår i: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. - : IOS Press. - 0926-9630 .- 1879-8365. ; 184, s. 129-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Force and touch feedback, or haptics, can play a significant role in the realism of virtual reality surgical simulation. While it is accepted that simulators providing haptic feedback often outperform those that do not, little is known about the degree of haptic fidelity required to achieve simulation objectives. This article evaluates the effect that employing haptic rendering with different degrees of freedom (DOF) has on task performance in a virtual environment. Results show that 6-DOF haptic rendering significantly improves task performance over 3-DOF haptic rendering, even if computed torques are not displayed to the user. No significant difference could be observed between under-actuated (force only) and fully-actuated 6-DOF feedback in two surgically-motivated tasks.
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