There are about 5161 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Norway. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Objective: To compare the occurrence and intensity of pelvic pain as well as patient satisfaction and quality of life after total laparoscopic and laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy. Design: Prospective randomised trial. Null hypothesis 1: There is no significant difference in occurrence and intensity of pelvic pain following TLH compared with following LSH. Null hypothesis 2: There is no significant difference in patient satisfaction and quality of life following TLH compared with following LSH.
The object of the study is to investigate whether all included patients receive treatment that is effective against all bacteria that are defined as sensitive to meropenem with the current treatment regimen. Will the investigators findings motivate routine monitoring of plasma concentrations in children receiving meropenem? Up to 50 patients will be included in the study, and all participants are children.
30 patients acute hospitalized to medical ward and their medication records are examined. It is to be recorded how the investigators find information about medicine use by the reception when they do not follow the patient. The record of the changes made during hospital stay is examined, whether they are justified in the discharge summaries and whether they are described in the medical list. After a month is to find out if the GP has recorded or possibly rejected changes to medication made in hospital.
Keyhole surgery for adnexal disease has traditionally been performed using three or four small incisions. The last years a new operating method has been introduced. This method makes use of only one incision of 2 cm in the umbilicus. This method is less invasive, and it might benefit the patient through less postoperative pain and a higher satisfaction with the cosmetic result. So far, many studies have shown that this new method is feasible for adnexal disease, but its superiority compared to conventional laparoscopy is to be proven. This study aims to show this difference. The investigators aim to compare experienced postoperative pain and use of analgesics in patients undergoing single port laparoscopy for benign adnexal disease with conventional laparoscopy. The investigators hypothesize that the patients will experience less postoperative pain and use less analgesic in the single port laparoscopy group. Further, the investigators aim to compare the satisfaction with the cosmetic results in the two groups. In addition, blood loss, operating time, complications and conversion to conventional laparoscopy will be registered in the two groups.
The majority of elderly patients with a displaced fracture of the proximal femur are now treated with a hemiarthroplasty. Prosthetic joint infection is a devastating complication, and the infection rate is high in this group of elderly patients. Local application of gentamicin produces high antibiotic concentrations in the wound. The aim of this study is to determine whether locally administered collagen-gentamicin in the joint perioperatively in addition to routine IV prophylaxis with beta-lactam antibiotics can reduce the early postoperative infection rate (< 4 weeks postoperative)after hemiarthroplasty in proximal femoral fractures.
Dementia is one of the most common and devastating diseases in the elderly, it leads to helplessness, no cure exists and therefore care is necessary to provide. The care is associated with a great burden for the family carers and expensive for the society when residential care is required. The purpose of this study is to improve knowledge on how to provide better care for both the patients and their family carers, the investigators want to carry out a controlled trial using a rather cheap form of intervention, a multidimensional support program - an 18 months randomized controlled intervention study.
The aim of the study is to asses the hydration status of incident peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and its evolution over a period of four years, independent of the PD treatment modality (APD or CAPD) and the PD solution type.
The purpose of the Multi-National Gilenya Pregnancy Exposure Registry in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is to continuously monitor, evaluate, and assess for major and minor teratogenic effects in the offspring of women exposed to fingolimod before (up to 8 weeks before last menstrual period (LMP)) and during pregnancy in routine clinical practice. The overall aim is to collect and evaluate data on maternal, fetal, and infant outcomes and compare it with reference populations.
The drug being tested is called VigantOL® oil - a very effective form of Vitamin D hormone supplement (cholecalciferol). Low levels of Vitamin D have been described to be associated with a higher risk of developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and it is known that up to 90% of patients with Multiple Sclerosis have Vitamin D deficiency. Rebif® is known to be an effective treatment for slowing down the progression of MS. The purpose of this research trial is to evaluate if VigantOL® oil on top of Rebif® has any benefit on the progression of MS compared to Rebif® and placebo. Disease activity will be assessed by clinical examination and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The planned study treatment duration for each study participant is 48 weeks, and the study consists of a total of 8 visits. Study participants who are already passed Week 48 at the time of approval of Protocol Amendment 5 will have a study duration of 96 weeks and a total of 12 visits. During the study, the participant will undergo physical examination, neurological assessments, safety assessments, blood tests and urinalysis (including pregnancy tests).
Pulse induced continuous cardiac output (PiCCO) is an established technology for measurement of advanced hemodynamic variables in critically ill patients. PiCCO is approved and designed also for use in children, but there is a lack of documentation of reference values in children not suffering from a critical illness. The goal of this study is to establish such values.