Search for dissertations about: "participation drug thesis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the words participation drug thesis.
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1. Rational drug treatment in the elderly : "To treat or not to treat"
Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to examine the effect of interventions on the usage of inappropriate and hazardous multi-medication in the elderly ≥75 years with ≥5 drugs.Methods: Paper I describes a cluster randomization of nursing homes, the outcomes were; number of drugs, health status and evaluations. READ MORE
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2. Ideological Closure : Drug Prevention in a Post-political Society
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to critically examine drug prevention as a field of problematizations – how drug prevention becomes established as a political technology within this field, how it connects to certain modes of governance, how and under which conditions it constitutes it’s problematic, the questions it asks, it´s implications in terms of political participation and representation, the various bodies of knowledge through which it constitutes the reality upon which it acts, the limits it places on ways of being, questioning, and talking in the world.The main analyses have been conducted in four separate but interrelated articles. READ MORE
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3. Knowledge in practice : The feasibility of recovery capital in Swedish alcohol and other drug treatment
Abstract : The recovery model, endorsed by various governmental bodies, emphasises the integration of a recovery perspective into alcohol and drug policy, with a focus on post-treatment interventions such as housing, employment and education needs. In an effort to enhance the utility of the recovery perspective in treatment, the concept of recovery capital (RC) has been used as a foundation for operationalisations used to measure treatment needs and progress. READ MORE
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4. Patient characteristic, perceived health and drug prescription in primary care
Abstract : Patients have increased demands for information and involvement in decision-making including drug selection. At the same time, society needs to limit costs, e.g. for subsidized drugs, thus entailing a challenge to in particular primary care. READ MORE
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5. Improved Methods for Pharmacometric Model-Based Decision-Making in Clinical Drug Development
Abstract : Pharmacometric model-based analysis using nonlinear mixed-effects models (NLMEM) has to date mainly been applied to learning activities in drug development. However, such analyses can also serve as the primary analysis in confirmatory studies, which is expected to bring higher power than traditional analysis methods, among other advantages. READ MORE
