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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

Project Manager:
Anne Therese Tveter
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.

Project Manager:
Nina Østerås
WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

NOR Flare

Distance follow-up of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Project Manager:
Anne Therese Tveter
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

Project Manager:
Anne Therese Tveter
WP7 - Empowering the individual

QI-HOA

Quality indicators for hand osteoarthritis

Project Manager:
Daniel Huseby Bordvik
WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

ReMonit

remote monitoring of patients with spondyloarthritis

Project Manager:
Nina Østerås
WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

ReMonit Gout

Remote monitoring and management of gout

Project Manager:
Nina Østerås
WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

RemoteUX

User experiences with remote monitoring for patients with inflammatory joint disease

Project Manager:
Anne Therese Tveter
WP5 - Innovative approaches to remote care

SAMBA

Collaboration for better osteoarthritis treatment

Project Manager:
Nina Østerås
WP7 - Empowering the individual

SPARK

SPondylaritis Condition

Project Manager:
Sell ​​Aarrestad Provan

Publications

Publications taken from the National Science Archive (NVA):

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

Tuva Moseng, Theodora PM Vliet Vlieland, Simone Battista, David Beckwée, Vladimira Boyadzhieva, Philip G. Conaghan


Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

2024

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

Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre


Musculoskeletal Care

2024

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

Nina Østerås


Journal of Physiotherapy

2024

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

Ricardo JO Ferreira, Adriana Henriques, Rikke Helene Moe, Cristiano Matos, Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås


BMJ Open

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

Emil E. Kvernberg Thomassen, Inger Jorid Berg, Eirik Kristianslund, Anne Therese Tveter, Gunnstein Bakland, Laure Gossec


Rheumatology International

2024

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

Lars Martinsen, Nina Østerås, Tuva Moseng, Anne Therese Tveter


JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies

2024

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

Nina Østerås


Journal of Physiotherapy

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]

Nina Østerås


Journal of Physiotherapy

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

Inger Jorid Berg, Anne Therese Tveter, Gunnstein Bakland, Sarah Hakim, Eirik Kristianslund, Siri Lillegraven


JMIR Research Protocols

2023

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

Emil Eirik Kvernberg Thomassen, Inger Jorid Berg, Eirik Klami Kristianslund, Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås


BMC Health Services Research

2023

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

Nina Østerås, Eline Aas, Tuva Moseng, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Krysia Dziedzic, Bård Natvig


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

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

Britt Elin Øiestad, Asbjørn Årøen, Jan H Røtterud, Nina Østerås, Even Jarstad, Margreth Grotle


BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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

Anne Therese Tveter, Linn Kleven, Nina Østerås, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide


BMJ Open

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)

Christian J. Wiedermann, Pasqualina Marino, Antje van der Zee-Neuen, Isabella Mastrobuono, Angelika Mahlknecht, Verena Barbieri


Methods and Protocols (MP)

2023

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

KD Allen, K. Huffman, RJ Cleveland, der van der Esch, JH Abbott, A. Abbott


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

2023

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

Geir Smedslund, Ingvild Kjeken, Frauke Musial, Joseph Sexton, Nina Østerås


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open

2022

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

Lars Martinsen, Nina Østerås, Tuva Moseng, Anne Therese Tveter


BMJ Open

2022

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

Annette De Thurah, Philipp Bosch, Andrea Marques, Yvette Meissner, Chetan B Mukhtyar, Johannes Knitza


Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

2022

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

Ida Kristin Bos-Haugen, David Felson, Abhishek Abhishek, Francis Berenbaum, John James Edwards, Gabriel Herrero Beaumont


RMD Open

2022

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

Sarah Kobayashi, Kelli Allen, Kim Bennell, Jocelyn L. Bowden, Andrew M. Briggs, Annette Burgess


Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

2022

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

Bimbi Gray, Jillian P. Eyles, Sandra Grace, David J. Hunter, Nina Østerås, Jonathan Quicke


Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

2022

Use of video consultations in an outpatient rheumatology clinic

Anne Therese Tveter, Sella Aarrestad Provan, Ellen Moholt, Kjetil Bergsmark, Nina Østerås


Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association

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

Lauren K. King, Jonathan Epstein, Marita Cross, Marie Buzzi, Thomas Buttel, Sam Michel Cembalo


Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism

2021

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

Nina Østerås, Irma Brandeggen Blaker, Tore Hjortland, Elizabeth Cottrell, Jonathan G. Quicke, Krysia S. Dziedzic


BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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

Anne Therese Tveter, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre, Monika Olsen


Journal of Hand Therapy

2020

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

Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre


Arthritis care & research

2020

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

Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre


Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

2020

Patient Goals and Motivation for Thumb Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis Surgery

Else Marit Holen Gravås, Ingvild Kjeken, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Hoegh Matre


Hand

2020

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

Joanne L. Kemp, Nina Østerås, Alexander Mathiessen, Lars Nordsletten, Rintje Agricola, Jan H Waarsing


HIP International

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

Tuva Moseng, Hanne Solveig Dagfinrud, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Krysia Dziedzic, Kåre Birger Hagen, Bård Natvig


BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

2020

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

Else Marit Holen Gravås, Nina Østerås, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Matre


RMD Open

2019

The Maternal and Paternal Effects on Clinically and Surgically Defined Osteoarthritis

Eirik Weldingh, Marianne Bakke Johnsen, Kåre Birger Hagen, Nina Østerås, May Arna Risberg, Bård Natvig


Arthritis & Rheumatology

2019

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

Nina Østerås, Tuva Moseng, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Krysia Dziedzic, Ibrahimu Mdala, Bård Natvig


PLoS Medicine

2019

Biomarkers of cardiovascular risk across phenotypes of osteoarthritis

Sella Aarrestad Provan, Silvia Christin Hellerud Rollefstad, Eirik Ikdahl, Alexander Mathiessen, Inger Jorid Berg, IB Wilkinson


Biomed Central Rheumatology

2019

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

Else Marit Holen Gravås, Anne Therese Tveter, Randi Nossum, Ruth Else Meh Eide, Åse Klokkeide, Karin Matre


BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

2019

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

Tuva Moseng, Hanne Dagfinrud, Nina Østerås


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

2019

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

Lucie Brosseau, Odette Thevenot, Olivia MacKiddie, Jade Taki, George A. Wells, Paulette Guitard


Clinical Rehabilitation

2018

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

Nina Østerås, Anne Therese Tveter, Andrew Garratt, Odd-Einar Svinøy, Ingvild Kjeken, Bård Natvig


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

2018

Evidence-Based Self-Management for Spondyloarthritis Patients

Wolfgang Leister, Camilla Fongen, Dag Soldal, Kåre Birger Hagen, Trenton Wade Schulz, Peder Aursand


International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences

2017

Exercise for Hand Osteoarthritis: A Cochrane Systematic Review

Nina Østerås, Ingvild Kjeken, Geir Smedslund, Rikke Helene Moe, Barbara Therese Slatkovsky Christensen, Till Uhlig


Journal of Rheumatology

2017

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

Karin Magnusson, Alexander Mathiessen, Hilde Berner Hammer, Tore Kristian Kvien, Barbara Therese Slatkovsky Christensen, Bård Natvig


Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

2017

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

Guro Økelsrud Lombnæs, Karin Magnusson, Nina Østerås, Lars Nordsletten, May Arna Risberg, Kåre Birger Hagen


Rheumatology International

2017

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

Tuva Moseng, Hanne Dagfinrud, Geir Smedslund, Nina Østerås


Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

2017

Exercise for hand osteoarthritis

Nina Østerås, Ingvild Kjeken, Geir Smedslund, Rikke Helene Moe, Barbara Therese Slatkovsky Christensen, Till Uhlig


Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

2017

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

Steven Blackburn, Adele Higginbottom, Robert Taylor, Jo Bird, Nina Østerås, Kåre Birger Hagen


Research Involvement and Engagement

2016

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

Susan C. Slade, Clermont E. Dionne, Martin Underwood, Rachelle Buchbinder, Belinda Beck, Kim Bennell


Physical Therapy

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

Wilfred Peter, Hanne Dagfinrud, Nina Østerås, CB Terwee


Musculoskeletal Care

2016

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

Kåre Birger Hagen, Geir Smedslund, Nina Østerås, Gro Jamtvedt


Arthritis care & research

2016

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

Nina Østerås, KP Jordan, B Clausen, C Cordeiro, K Dziedzic, J Edwards


RMD Open

2015