Mette Brekke

TL;DR: The NORGEP criteria may serve as rules of thumb for general practitioners related to their prescribing practice for elderly patients, and as a tool for evaluating the quality of GPs’ prescribing in settings where access to clinical information for individual patients is limited, e.g. in prescription databases and quality improvement interventions.

TL;DR: Investigation of possible associations between severity of non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain and residential areas of contrasting socioeconomic status in Oslo, Norway revealed that living in the less affluent area was associated with strong and widespread pain, with high levels of physical disability and mental distress and with low life satisfaction.

TL;DR: A high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D is shown in patients with non-specific musculoskeletal pain, headache, or fatigue for whom the GP had suspected a low vitamin D level, and these results indicate that GPs should maintain awareness ofHypov vitamin D levels and refer patients who report headaches, fatigue, and musculo- skeletal pain with minimal sun exposure and a low dietary vitamin D intake for assessment.

TL;DR: In patients with RA, the baseline levels of self-efficacy for pain and other symptoms seem to influence 2-yr changes in health status measures regarding these aspects, even after adjustment for demographic variables and for the baseline level of the health status measure.

TL;DR: The intervention led to improved antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in a representative sample of Norwegian general practitioners, and the courses were feasible to the general practitioners.