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Astrid Norberg

Astrid Norberg

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Medicine

D-Index
80
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24849
World Ranking
17059
National Ranking
323

Overview

Astrid Norberg is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and is active in the field of Medicine, with a primary focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Epidemiology, and Issues related to ethics and legal aspects within the medical sciences.

Their work covers various specific topics, prominently featuring Phonocardiography and Auscultation Techniques, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, and Antibiotic Use and Resistance. Additional areas of research interest include Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation, Asthma and respiratory diseases, as well as Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management.

Norberg has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • International Journal of COPD
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • British Journal of General Practice
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Health Technology Assessment

Among their recent papers are:

  • "C-reactive protein point-of-care testing for safely reducing antibiotics for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the PACE RCT" (2020), published in Health Technology Assessment
  • "The Role of CRP POC Testing in the Fight against Antibiotic Overuse in European Primary Care: Recommendations from a European Expert Panel" (2023), published in Diagnostics
  • "Diagnostic accuracy of heart auscultation for detecting valve disease: a systematic review" (2023), published in BMJ Open
  • "The use of spectrograms improves the classification of wheezes and crackles in an educational setting" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Impact of respiratory symptoms and oxygen saturation on the risk of incident venous thromboembolism-the Tromsø study" (2020), published in Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Frequent collaborators of Norberg include Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Carl Llor, Henrik Schirmer, Anne Herefoss Davidsen, and Stian Andersen, reflecting active engagement in multidisciplinary research teams.

Best Publications

  • Person-Centered Care — Ready for Prime Time:

    Inger Ekman;Karl Swedberg;Charles Taft;Anders Lindseth;Anders Lindseth

  • Resilience, sense of coherence, purpose in life and self-transcendence in relation to perceived physical and mental health among the oldest old

    Björn Nygren;Lena Aléx;Elisabeth Jonsén;Yngve Gustafson

  • Acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fracture.

    Yngve Gustafson;Diana Berggren;Benny Brännström;Gösta Bucht

  • The meaning of the lived experience of hope in patients with cancer in palliative home care

    Eva Benzein;Astrid Norberg;Britt-Inger Saveman

  • Developing the Concept of Moral Sensitivity in Health Care Practice

    Kim Lützén;Vera Dahlqvist;Sture Eriksson;Astrid Norberg

  • Burnout and 'stress of conscience' among healthcare personnel.

    Ann-Louise Glasberg;Sture Eriksson;Astrid Norberg

  • A geriatric-anesthesiologic program to reduce acute confusional states in elderly patients treated for femoral neck fractures.

    Yngve Gustafson;Benny Brännström;Diana Berggren;Jón Ingvar Ragnarsson

  • Struggling for Dignity: The Meaning of Women’s Experiences of Living with Fibromyalgia

    Siv Söderberg;Berit Lundman;Astrid Norberg

  • Underdiagnosis and Poor Documentation of Acute Confusional States in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients

    Yngve Gustafson;Benny Brännström;Astrid Norberg;Gustav Bucht

  • Development and Initial Validation of the Stress of Conscience Questionnaire

    Ann-Louise Glasberg;Sture Eriksson;Vera Dahlqvist;Elisabeth Lindahl

  • Registered nurses' and physicians' reflections on their narratives about ethically difficult care episodes.

    Anders Lindseth;Venke Marhaug;Astrid Norberg;Giggi Udén

  • Reactions to music, touch and object presentation in the final stage of dementia. An exploratory study

    Astrid Norberg;Else Melin;Kenneth Asplund

  • Strain among nurses and their emotional reactions during 1 year of systematic clinical supervision combined with the implementation of individualized care in dementia nursing

    Ingalill R Hallberg;Astrid Norberg

  • Staff burnout in dementia care--relations to empathy and attitudes.

    Sture Åström;Mats Nilsson;Astrid Norberg;Per-Olof Sandman

  • Ethical reasoning in nurses’ and physicians’ stories about care episodes

    Giggi Udén;Astrid Norberg;Anders Lindseth;Venke Marhaug

  • Nutritional status in patients with acute stroke.

    Karin Axelsson;Kjell Asplund;Astrid Norberg;Irina Alafuzoff

  • Staff's experience of and the management of violent incidents in elderly care

    Sture Aström;Stig Karlsson;Asa Sandvide;Gösta Bucht

  • How people with stroke and healthy older people experience the eating process.

    Catrine Jacobsson;Karin Axelsson;Per Olov Österlind;Astrid Norberg

  • Experiences of coercion in psychiatric care as narrated by patients, nurses and physicians

    Britta Olofsson;Astrid Norberg

  • Breast cancer patients’ experiences of nursing care with the focus on emotional support: the implementation of a nursing intervention

    Maj-Britt Elisabet Pålsson;Astrid Norberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Berit Lundman
Berit Lundman Umeå University
Ingalill Rahm Hallberg
Ingalill Rahm Hallberg Lund University
Bengt Winblad
Bengt Winblad Karolinska Institute
Kjell Asplund
Kjell Asplund Umeå University
Yngve Gustafson
Yngve Gustafson Umeå University
Rolf Adolfsson
Rolf Adolfsson Umeå University
Kim Lützén
Kim Lützén Karolinska Institute
Anne Hammarström
Anne Hammarström Karolinska Institute
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg

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