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Nina Østerås

Professor
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-342X
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Education

  • Physiotherapist at the University College in Sør-Trøndelag
  • Basic pedagogy at the University of Oslo
  • Major in health sciences at the University of Bergen
  • Doctoral degree (PhD) at the Department of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Position

  • Head of the Unit for Health Services Research and Innovation (EHI), Diakonhjemmet Hospital
  • Senior researcher at EHI, Diakonhjemmet hospital
  • Professor II, Department of Health and Society, University of Oslo

Field of interest

  • Musculoskeletal diseases, injuries and complaints - particularly osteoarthritis
  • Rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases
  • eHealth and remote monitoring
  • Multidisciplinary collaboration
  • Quality of treatment
  • Implementation research
  • Randomized controlled trials

Other

  • Leader of work package 5 in REMEDY (Strategies for digital follow-up)

Email

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Telephone

+47 92086465

visiting address

Diakonhjemmet hospital
Diakonveien 12
0370 Oslo

Postal address

Diakohjemmet hospital
PO Box 23 Vinderen
0319 Oslo

Projects

WP7 - Empowering the individual

DigiOA

Digital Osteoarthritis treatment

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

EULAR rec hip knee OA

EULAR recommendations for hip and knee osteoarthritis: Update of EULAR recommendations for non-pharmacological core treatment of hip and knee osteoarthritis.

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

NOR Flare

Distance follow-up of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

OA-AID

Digital coping tools and digital follow-up to support shared decisionmaking in the treatment of patients with knee osteoarthritis

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WP7 - Empowering the individual

QI-HOA

Quality indicators for hand osteoarthritis

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

ReMonit

remote monitoring of patients with spondyloarthritis

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

ReMonit Gout

Remote monitoring and management of gout

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

RemoteUX

User experiences with remote monitoring for patients with inflammatory joint disease

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WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

SAMBA

Collaboration for better osteoarthritis treatment

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WP7 - Empowering the individual

SPARK

SPondylaritis Condition

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Publications

Publications taken from the National Science Archive (NVA):

EULAR recommendations for the non-pharmacological core management of hip and knee osteoarthritis: 2023 update

2024

Long-term changes in pain and function in patients with thumb base osteoarthritis receiving brief information, occupational therapy and/or surgery

2024

Critically appraised paper: Telerehabilitation consultations with a physiotherapist are non-inferior to in-person consultations for chronic knee pain [synopsis]

2024

Presentation of the first international research network to foster high-quality clinical trials testing non-pharmacological interventions (TRACTION network)

2024

Patients with axial spondyloarthritis reported willingness to use remote care and showed high adherence to electronic patient-reported outcome measures: an 18-month observational study

2024

Usage, Attitudes, Facilitators, and Barriers Toward Digital Health Technologies in Musculoskeletal Care: Survey Among Primary Care Physiotherapists in Norway

2024

Critically appraised paper: An individualised, progressive walking and education intervention reduces the risk of low back pain recurrence [synopsis]

2024

Critically appraised paper: Cognitive behavioral therapy with best-evidence pain management was not superior to best-evidence pain management alone for patients with chronic spinal pain and insomnia [synopsis]

2024

Follow-Up of Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis in Specialist Health Care With Remote Monitoring and Self-Monitoring Compared With Regular Face-to-Face Follow-Up Visits (the ReMonit Study): Protocol for a Randomized, Controlled Open-Label Noninferiority Trial

2023

Willingness, perceived facilitators and barriers to use remote care among healthcare professionals – a cross-sectional study

2023

Longer-term quality of care, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of implementing a model of care for osteoarthritis: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

2023

The efficacy of strength or aerobic exercise on quality of life and knee function in patients with knee osteoarthritis. A multi-arm randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up

2023

Is multimodal occupational therapy in addition to usual care cost-effective in people with thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis? A cost-utility analysis of a randomized controlled trial

2023

Patient-Reported Quality of Care for Osteoarthritis in General Practice in South Tyrol, Italy: Protocol for Translation, Validation and Assessment of the OsteoArthritis Quality Indicator Questionnaire (OA-QI)

2023

Evaluating Osteoarthritis Management Programs: outcome domain recommendations from the OARSI Joint Effort Initiative

2023

Interventions for osteoarthritis pain: A systematic review with network meta-analysis of existing Cochrane reviews

2022

Effect of a mHealth exercise intervention compared with supervised exercise therapy in osteoarthritis management: protocol of the DigiOA trial

2022

2022 EULAR points to consider for remote care in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

2022

Development of radiographic classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis: a methodological report (Phase 2)

2022

A Framework to Guide the Development of Health Care Professional Education and Training in Best Evidence Osteoarthritis Care

2022

Best Evidence Osteoarthritis Care: What Are the Recommendations and What Is Needed to Improve Practice?

2022

Use of video consultations in an outpatient rheumatology clinic

2021

Endorsement of the domains of knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) flare: A report from the OMERACT 2020 inaugural virtual consensus vote from the flares in OA working group

2021

Improving osteoarthritis management in primary healthcare: results from a quasi-experimental study

2021

The Measure of Activity Performance of the hand (MAP-Hand) - A reliable and valid questionnaire for use in patients with hand osteoarthritis with specific involvement of the thumb

2020

Short-Term Effects of Occupational Therapy on Hand Function and Pain in Patients With Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis: Secondary Analyzes From a Randomized Controlled Trial

2020

The map-hand: Psychometric properties and differences in activity performance between patients with carpometacarpal osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

2020

Patient Goals and Motivation for Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis Surgery

2020

Relationship between cam morphology, hip symptoms, and hip osteoarthritis: the Musculoskeletal pain in Ullersaker STudy (MUST) cohort

2020

Low adherence to exercise may have influenced the proportion of OMERACT-OARSI responders in an integrated osteoarthritis care model: secondary analyzes from a cluster-randomised stepped-wedge trial

2020

Does occupational therapy delay or reduce the proportion of patients who receive thumb carpometacarpal joint surgery? A multicentre randomized controlled trial

2019

The Maternal and Paternal Effects on Clinically and Surgically Defined Osteoarthritis

2019

Implementing a structured model for osteoarthritis care in primary healthcare: A stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial

2019

Biomarkers of cardiovascular risk across phenotypes of osteoarthritis

2019

Non-pharmacological treatment gap preceding surgical consultation in thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis- A cross-sectional study

2019

Implementing international osteoarthritis guidelines in primary care: uptake and fidelity among health professionals and patients

2019

The Ottawa Panel guidelines on programs involving therapeutic exercise for the management of hand osteoarthritis

2018

Measurement properties for the revised patient-reported OsteoArthritis Quality Indicator questionnaire

2018

Evidence-Based Self-Management for Spondyloarthritis Patients

2017

Exercise for Hand Osteoarthritis: A Cochrane Systematic Review

2017

Smoking and alcohol use are associated with structural and inflammatory hand osteoarthritis features

2017

Distribution of osteoarthritis in a Norwegian population-based cohort: associations to risk factor profiles and health-related quality of life

2017

The importance of dose in land-based supervised exercise for people with hip osteoarthritis. A systematic review and meta-analysis

2017

Exercise for hand osteoarthritis

2017

Patient-reported quality indicators for osteoarthritis: A patient and public generated self-report measure for primary care

2016

Consensus on exercise reporting template (Cert): Modified delphi study

2016

Animated Activity Questionnaire (AAQ), a new method of self-reporting activity limitations in patients with hip and knee osteoarthritis: Comparisons with observation by spouses for construct validity

2016

Quality of Community-Based Osteoarthritis Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2016

Self-reported quality care for knee osteoarthritis: comparisons across Denmark, Norway, Portugal and the UK

2015