Success in the Stavanger Surgical Research Group

My absence from the blog recently is due to an extensive work load over the past few months, yet with a pleasure twist, as three of the candidates in our research group have defended their PhD thesis over the past several weeks. Here are the summaries and brief overview of the champs!
Terje Meling MD defended his thesis on "Implementation of a fracture and dislocation registry. Epidemiology and scoring validity of long-bone fractures" based on the publications:

Reliable classification of children's fractures according to the comprehensive classification of long bone fractures by Müller.

Meling T, Harboe K, Enoksen CH, Aarflot M, Arthursson AJ, Søreide K.

Acta Orthop. 2013 Apr;84(2):207-12. doi: 10.3109/17453674.2012.752692. Epub 2012 Dec 18.

How reliable and accurate is the AO/OTA comprehensive classification for adult long-bone fractures?

Meling T, Harboe K, Enoksen CH, Aarflot M, Arthursson AJ, Søreide K.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Jul;73(1):224-31. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31824cf0ab.

Steppingstones to the implementation of an inhospital fracture and dislocation registry using the AO/OTA classification: compliance, completeness and commitment.

Meling T, Harboe K, Arthursson AJ, Søreide K.

Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2010 Oct 18;18:54. doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-54.

Incidence of traumatic long-bone fractures requiring in-hospital management: a prospective age- and gender-specific analysis of 4890 fractures.

Meling T, Harboe K, Søreide K.

Injury. 2009 Nov;40(11):1212-9. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.06.003.

Tom Glomsaker MD defended his work on the use of ERCP in Norway, with the thesis entitled "ERCP in Norway. Patterns of activity and undesired events " and based on the publications as follows:

Patterns and predictive factors of complications after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

Glomsaker T, Hoff G, Kvaløy JT, Søreide K, Aabakken L, Søreide JA; Norwegian Gastronet ERCP Group.

Br J Surg. 2013 Feb;100(3):373-80. doi: 10.1002/bjs.8992. Epub 2012 Dec 6.

Contemporary use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP): a Norwegian prospective, multicenter study.

Glomsaker T, Søreide K, Hoff G, Aabakken L, Søreide JA; Norwegian Gastronet ERCP group.

Scand J Gastroenterol. 2011 Sep;46(9):1144-51. doi: 10.3109/00365521.2011.594085. 

A national audit of temporal trends in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in Norway.

Glomsaker T, Søreide K, Aabakken L, Søreide JA.

Scand J Gastroenterol. 2011 Jan;46(1):116-21. doi: 10.3109/00365521.2010.513063. Epub 2010 Aug 24. Erratum in: Scand J Gastroenterol. 2011 Jan;46(1):121.

In addition, a fourth study on patient-reported outcomes will be published sson in the Scand J Gastroenterology from this project.

And , last but not least, Bjørn Steinar Nedrebø MD, defended his thesis on "Colorectal Cancer in Norway - National Treatment Guidelines and Outcomes " of which his work is based on the publications :

Risk factors associated with poor lymph node harvest after colon cancer surgery in a national cohort.

Nedrebø B, Søreide K, Nesbakken A, Eriksen M, Søreide J, Kørner H; The Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Group.

Colorectal Dis. 2013 Apr 13. doi: 10.1111/codi.12245. [Epub ahead of print]

Excess mortality after curative surgery for colorectal cancer changes over time and differs for patients with colon versus rectal cancer.

Nedrebø BS, Søreide K, Eriksen MT, Kvaløy JT, Søreide JA, Kørner H.

Acta Oncol. 2012 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print]

Survival effect of implementing national treatment strategies for curatively resected colonic and rectal cancer.

Nedrebø BS, Søreide K, Eriksen MT, Dørum LM, Kvaløy JT, Søreide JA, Kørner H; Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Registry.

Br J Surg. 2011 May;98(5):716-23. doi: 10.1002/bjs.7426. Epub 2011 Feb 21.

Congrats and well done!!!