ASSIGNMENT. Joakim Öhlén, who will soon become director of the Center for Person-Centered Care (GPCC) at the University of Gothenburg, has been involved in GPCC’s work since it began. He specializes in palliative care and considers ethics and interaction as success factors for person-centered care and GPCC. Joakim Öhlén becomes the director of the Center for Person-Centered Care (GPCC) at the University of Gothenburg on April 1. Öhlén has served…
Five projects receive educational development funding
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Five educational development projects will now be implemented with funds from the Swedish Council for Education. One of the projects brings together training of nurses and dental hygienists, in which future nurses receive specialized training in oral health and future dental hygienists receive information and instruction about oral care. For 2019 the Council for Education has decided to distribute a total of SEK 450,000 to fund educational development.…
A relative of Bollan: “She was energetic and open-hearted”
DONATION. Thanks to a gift from Bollan Lindén, a number of young researchers will gain access to the various research platforms within Core Facilities in the coming years. Bollan is described as a well-read woman with a good sense of humor, and her relatives are pleased that a scholarship is now being awarded annually in her name at Sahlgrenska Academy. Before she married into the Lindén family, Bollan’s last name…
Administering higher doses of oxytocin does not reduce the use of caesarean sections
DOCTORAL THESIS. Delayed labor increases the risk of a caesarean section, even among women who receive oxytocin for augmentation of labour. The rate of caesarean section among first-time mothers is not reduced if the administered dose is doubled either, according to a dissertation from Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In her dissertation Lotta Selin, a midwife, studied data on a total of 2,775 births in Sweden. She…
New attention to women with painful vertebral compression fractures
DOCTORAL THESIS. Older women who suffer vertebral fractures rarely attract the attention of health care providers. A dissertation at Sahlgrenska Academy throws new light on a group of individuals with chronic pain as a constant companion. “We must become more aware of these women and take their experiences of pain seriously,” says Hilda Svensson, district nurse and PhD at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy and…