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Bjørn Hofmann

Bjørn Hofmann

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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41
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World Ranking
5029
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Overview

Bjørn Hofmann is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spans several interconnected fields within medicine and health professions, with a focus on health technology assessment, medical ethics, and diagnostic imaging.

The primary fields of study for Hofmann include Medicine and Health Professions. Within these areas, their work covers various subfields such as General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Philosophy.

Hofmann's research addresses multiple main topics, including healthcare cost, quality, and practices; health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; mental health and psychiatry; radiation dose and imaging; ethics in medical practice; clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills; and ethics in clinical research.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hofmann include:

  • "Characterizing and quantifying low-value diagnostic imaging internationally: a scoping review," published in 2022 in BMC Medical Imaging
  • "Interventions to reduce low-value imaging - a systematic review of interventions and outcomes," published in 2021 in BMC Health Services Research
  • "Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times," published in 2020 in Medicine Health Care and Philosophy
  • "The death of dignity is greatly exaggerated: Reflections 15 years after the declaration of dignity as a useless concept," published in 2020 in Bioethics
  • "Integrating Empirical Analysis and Normative Inquiry in Health Technology Assessment: The Values in Doing Assessments of Health Technologies Approach," published in 2022 in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hofmann include:

  • Elin Kjelle
  • Eivind Richter Andersen
  • Ingrid Øfsti Brandsæter
  • Søren Holm
  • Gert Jan van der Wilt

Hofmann has published extensively in several journals and venues, notably:

  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Den Norske tannlegeforenings tidende
  • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Best Publications

  • Making sense of complexity in context and implementation: the Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) framework

    Lisa M. Pfadenhauer;Ansgar Gerhardus;Kati Mozygemba;Kristin Bakke Lysdahl

  • On the Triad Disease, Illness and Sickness

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • Broadening consent—and diluting ethics?

    B Hofmann

  • Ethical Challenges with Welfare Technology: A Review of the Literature

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • The new holism: P4 systems medicine and the medicalization of health and life itself

    Henrik Vogt;Bjørn Hofmann;Linn Okkenhaug Getz

  • Context and implementation: A concept analysis towards conceptual maturity.

    Lisa Maria Pfadenhauer;Kati Mozygemba;Ansgar Gerhardus;Bjørn Hofmann

  • Toward a procedure for integrating moral issues in health technology assessment.

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • The HTA Core Model: A novel method for producing and reporting health technology assessments

    Kristian Lampe;Marjukka Mäkelä;Marcial Velasco Garrido;Heidi Anttila

  • Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health technologies

    Samuli I Saarni;Bjørn Hofmann;Kristian Lampe;Dagmar Lühmann

  • Is there a technological imperative in health care

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • What causes increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations? a survey of radiologists' perceptions

    Kristin B Lysdahl;Kristin B Lysdahl;Bjørn M Hofmann;Bjørn M Hofmann

  • The technological invention of disease.

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • Complexity of the concept of disease as shown through rival theoretical frameworks.

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • Medicalization and overdiagnosis: different but alike

    Bjørn Hofmann;Bjørn Hofmann

  • Why ethics should be part of health technology assessment.

    Bjørn Morten Hofmann

  • Image rejects/retakes--radiographic challenges.

    D. Waaler;B. Hofmann

  • Image rejects in general direct digital radiography

    Bjørn Hofmann;Tine Blomberg Rosanowsky;Camilla Jensen;Kenneth Hong Ching Wah

  • Bariatric surgery for obese children and adolescents: a review of the moral challenges

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • On value-judgements and ethics in health technology assessment

    Bjørn Hofmann

  • The ethics of research biobanking

    Jan Helge Solbakk;Søren Holm;Bjørn Hofmann

  • Ethical analysis to improve decision-making on health

    Bjørn Hofmann;Kristian Lampe;Ilona Autti-Rämö

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren Holm
Søren Holm University of Manchester
Samuli I. Saarni
Samuli I. Saarni Tampere University
Eva Rehfuess
Eva Rehfuess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wendy A. Rogers
Wendy A. Rogers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Atle Fretheim
Atle Fretheim Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Stacy M Carter
Stacy M Carter University of Wollongong
Andrew Booth
Andrew Booth University of Sheffield
Björn Olsen
Björn Olsen Harvard University
Ingar Olsen
Ingar Olsen University of Oslo
Deborah L. Reas
Deborah L. Reas Oslo University Hospital

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