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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 99 avhandlingar innehållade ordet urgency.
21. Anal incontinence and obstetric sphincter tears
Sammanfattning : PURPOSE: To evaluate the prevalence of anal incontinence (AI) in primiparous women five years after their first delivery; to investigate if an 8-12 hour time delay of primary repair affects AI at 1-year follow-up; to study the association between endoanal ultrasonography and anorectal manometry in relation to AI in primiparous women; to evaluate whether an endoanal ultrasonographic derived sphincter length-index correlates to subjective AI. METHODS: Primiparous women were prospectively followed with questionnaires before the pregnancy, at 5 and 9 months, and 5 years after the delivery. LÄS MER
22. Where from and by whom? Tracing academic and practitioner visions of energy systems change related to lower income countries
Sammanfattning : Dominant agendas of global sustainable development broadly emphasise the urgency of a transition towards an environmentally, socially and economically preferable future. Critical scholars have raised concerns that this transition either produces new environmental, social and economic problems or reproduces those problems of the present system. LÄS MER
23. Change and inertia in the development of Swedish engineering education : The industrial stakeholder perspective
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates higher education development in Sweden from an external stakeholder perspective, with a particular focus on engineering education. Industry has long been a major external stakeholder in the development of profession-oriented higher education, not least in the context of engineering education. LÄS MER
24. Improving the situation of urinary bladder cancer survivors treated with radical surgery or radical radiotherapy
Sammanfattning : In this thesis we investigated whether the situation of urinary bladder cancer survivors can be improved. To do this, it is necessary to acquire a more specific knowledge of longterm distressing symptoms, symptom characteristics (nature, occurrence, intensity and duration), and of the corresponding symptom-induced distress, as well as the effect on wellbeing and the quality of life (VI). LÄS MER
25. Register-based studies on cholecystectomy : Quality of life after cholecystectomy, and cholecystectomy incidence and complications after gastric bypass
Sammanfattning : Cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder) is standard surgical treatment for patients with symptomatic gallstone disease, albeit not without complications. Assessing the impact on quality of life is crucial for appropriate cholecystectomy patient selection, and the Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) is a 36-item questionnaire validated for this purpose. LÄS MER