Katja Thomsen

ORCID: 0000-0002-0454-836X
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Research Areas
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Health, Medicine and Society
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Bone fractures and treatments
  • Pharmacy and Medical Practices
  • Foot and Ankle Surgery
  • Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
  • Neurological and metabolic disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Sex and Gender in Healthcare

Bases, Corpus, Langage
2024

Université Côte d'Azur
2024

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2024

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2024

Odense University Hospital
2013-2023

University of Southern Denmark
2013-2022

Kongsberg Innovasjon (Norway)
2019

Planned Parenthood
1998

Eppendorf (Belgium)
1967

Universität Hamburg
1967

Falls prevention and management in older adults is a critical global challenge. One of the key risk factors for falls use certain medications. Therefore, to prevent medication-related falls, following recommended recent World Guidelines Prevention Management: (1) assess fall history before prescribing potential fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs), (2) validated, structured screening assessment tool identify FRIDs when performing medication review, (3) include review appropriate deprescribing...

10.1007/s41999-023-00824-8 article EN cc-by European Geriatric Medicine 2023-07-15

Introduction Hospital readmission is a burden to patients, relatives and society. Older patients with frailty are at highest risk of its negative outcomes. Objective We aimed examining whether follow-up visits by an outgoing multidisciplinary geriatric team (OGT) reduces unplanned hospital in discharged skilled nursing facility (SNF). Design A retrospective single-centre before-and-after cohort study. Setting participants Study population included all hospitalised from Danish department SNF...

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046698 article EN cc-by-nc BMJ Open 2021-08-01

Patients with dementia often face challenges in hospital settings due to cognitive impairment. The aim of this study is explore the encounter between patients and staff, from patient perspective. Focused ethnography guided method for data collection analytical approach was abductive. findings, based on 10 observations their staff a variety settings, reveal that seem not see person beyond diagnosis. findings also show, however, significant moments are constantly negotiated during encounters...

10.1177/2333393619899388 article EN cc-by-nc Global Qualitative Nursing Research 2020-01-01

The term dementia-friendly hospital is increasingly used to describe a variety of initiatives and strategies that are implemented meet the challenges faced by patients with dementia during hospitalization. However, no definition currently exists. This qualitative focus group study aimed stakeholders’ perspectives hospital. Four stakeholder groups were included: people dementia, relatives, staff, representatives from Danish Alzheimer Association. thematic analysis suggests person-centered...

10.1177/1471301220947848 article EN Dementia 2020-09-15

The objective of this study was to investigate if application United Kingdom National Osteoporosis Society (UK-NOS) triage approach, using calcaneal quantitative ultrasound (QUS), phalangeal radiographic absorptiometry (RA), or both methods in combination, for identification women with osteoporosis, would reduce the percentage who need further assessment Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) among older a high prevalence falls.We assessed 286 DXA hip and spine (Hologic Discovery) whom 221...

10.1186/1471-2318-14-143 article EN cc-by BMC Geriatrics 2014-12-01

The number of patients with dementia admitted to hospitals is increasing. However, the care and treatment these tends be suboptimal. A response this a widespread implementation educational initiatives. Nevertheless, effect such initiatives questioned. aim study was investigate impact education intervention by examining self-reported outcomes general hospital staff exploring staff’s experiences outcomes. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design framed method. quantitative data...

10.1177/20571585211022971 article EN cc-by-nc Nordic journal of nursing research 2021-10-01

There is a lack of knowledge about how falls are associated with the older person's physical, mental, and social functioning which would help find effective methods for identifying rehabilitation needs in population to ensure appropriate follow-up. The aim was investigate compare women without history.This an observational case-control study. Study participants were fallers aged ≥65 years recruited consecutively from hospital; age matched randomly selected community controls (fallers contact...

10.22540/jfsf-03-179 article EN cc-by-nc-sa Journal of Frailty Sarcopenia and Falls 2018-12-01
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