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Academic article
- (2023). Quality improvement dashboard for healthcare providers and targeted client communication to pregnant women to improve timely attendance and quality of antenatal care: A multi-arm cluster randomized trial (the eRegCom trial). Oxford Open Digital Health. 1-10.
- (2023). Clustering of metabolic and behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among the adult population in South and Southeast Asia: findings from WHO STEPS data. The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia. 1-10.
- (2022). eRegTime—Time Spent on Health Information Management in Primary Health Care Clinics Using a Digital Health Registry Versus Paper-Based Documentation: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Formative Research. 11 pages.
- (2022). Prevalence of multiple non-communicable diseases risk factors among adolescents in 140 countries: A population-based study. EClinicalMedicine. 9 pages.
- (2022). A digital health registry with clinical decision support for improving quality of antenatal care in Palestine (eRegQual): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled, superiority trial. The Lancet Digital Health. e126-e136.
- (2021). eRegCom—Quality Improvement Dashboard for healthcare providers and Targeted Client Communication to pregnant women using data from an electronic health registry to improve attendance and quality of antenatal care: study protocol for a multi-arm cluster randomized trial. Trials. 1-13.
- (2021). The effect of a digital targeted client communication intervention on pregnant women's worries and satisfaction with antenatal care in Palestine-A cluster randomized controlled trial. PLOS ONE. 1-13.
- (2021). Development of a targeted client communication intervention for pregnant and post-partum women: a descriptive study. The Lancet. S18.
- (2020). eRegCom – Quality Improvement Dashboard for healthcare providers and Targeted Client Communication to pregnant women using data from an electronic health registry to improve attendance and quality of antenatal care: study protocol for a multi-arm cluster randomized trial. Trials.
- (2020). Development of a targeted client communication intervention to women using an electronic maternal and child health registry: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 12 pages.
- (2019). eRegTime, Efficiency of Health Information Management Using an Electronic Registry for Maternal and Child Health: Protocol for a Time-Motion Study in a Cluster Randomized Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 11 pages.
- (2019). Effective coverage of essential antenatal care interventions: A cross-sectional study of public primary healthcare clinics in the West Bank. PLOS ONE. 1-15.
- (2018). eRegQual-an electronic health registry with interactive checklists and clinical decision support for improving quality of antenatal care: Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial. Trials. 1-12.
- (2018). Comparing individual-level clinical data from antenatal records with routine health information systems indicators for antenatal care in the West Bank: A cross-sectional study. PLOS ONE. 13 pages.
- (2017). Fetal growth trajectories in pregnancies of European and South Asian mothers with and without gestational diabetes, a population-based cohort study. PLOS ONE. 14 pages.
- (2016). eRegistries: Electronic registries for maternal and child health. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 15 pages.
- (2016). Predicting who fails to meet the physical activity guideline in pregnancy: a prospective study of objectively recorded physical activity in a population-based multi-ethnic cohort. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 11 pages.
- (2016). Ethnic differences in postpartum weight retention: a Norwegian cohort study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 699-708.
- (2015). Ethnic differences in BMI, subcutaneous fat, and serum leptin levels during and after pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes. European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE). 649-656.
- (2015). Effects of early pregnancy BMI, mid-gestational weight gain, glucose and lipid levels in pregnancy on offspring's birth weight and subcutaneous fat: A population-based cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 9 pages.
- (2014). Weight gain, total fat gain and regional fat gain during pregnancy and the association with gestational diabetes: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of Obesity. 76-81.
- (2014). Objectively recorded physical activity in early pregnancy: A multiethnic population-based study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 594-601.
- (2014). Objectively recorded physical activity and the association with gestational diabetes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. e389-e397.
- (2014). Maternal Life Course Socio-Economic Position and Offspring Body Composition at Birth in a Multi-Ethnic Population. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 445-454.
- (2013). Gestational diabetes, insulin resistance and physical activity in pregnancy in a multi-ethnic population - a public health perspective. Norsk Epidemiologi. 45-54.
- (2013). Ethnic differences in neonatal body composition in a multi-ethnic population and the impact of parental factors: a population-based cohort study. PLOS ONE. 9 pages.
- (2013). Ethnic differences in maternal dietary patterns are largely explained by socioeconomic score and integration score: a population-based study. Food & Nutrition Research (FNR).
- (2012). The prevalence of urinary incontinence in pregnancy among a multi-ethnic population resident in Norway. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 1354-1360.
- (2012). Metabolic Changes in Urine during and after Pregnancy in a Large, Multiethnic Population-Based Cohort Study of Gestational Diabetes. PLOS ONE. 12 pages.
- (2012). Impact of ethnicity on gestational diabetes identified with the WHO and the modified International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups criteria: a population-based cohort study. European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE). 317-324.
- (2012). Failure to increase insulin secretory capacity during pregnancy-induced insulin resistance is associated with ethnicity and gestational diabetes. European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE). 579-588.
- (2010). The STORK Groruddalen Research Program: A population based cohort study of gestational diabetes, physical activity and obesity in pregnancy in a multiethnic population. Rationale, methods, study population and participation rates. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 60-70.
- (2010). Risk factors and prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy: A study of type 2 diabetic outpatients in Bangladesh. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. 11-17.
Academic lecture
- (2018). Use of the national electronic maternal and child health registry (MCH eRegistry) in primary care clinics in Palestine: a pilot time-motion study.
- (2013). Changes in walking steps during pregnancy. A multi-ethnic population-based study.
- (2012). Dietary patterns are associated with gestational diabetes and socio-demographic factors: The STORK Groruddalen study.
Doctoral dissertation
- (2019). Attributes and consequences of health information systems data for antenatal care. Health status, health system performance and policy.
Abstract
- (2019). Use of the national electronic maternal and child health registry (MCH eRegistry) in primary care clinics in occupied Palestinian territory: a pilot time-motion study. The Lancet. 18-18.
- (2011). Gestational diabetes identified by the IADPSG- and WHO-criteria in a multiethnic population in Oslo, Norway: the Stork Groruddalen Research Program. Diabetologia. S42-S42.
- (2011). Ethnic differences in neonatal body composition in a multiethnic population in Oslo, Norway. The STORK-Groruddalen Study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. S143-S143.
- (2010). Levels of 25-OH-vitamin D in early pregnancy in women from five ethnic groups with and without gestational diabetes. Diabetologia. S149-S149.
Poster
- (2018). eRegCom: Communication strategies from the maternal and child health eRegistry to health care providers and women: A cluster randomized controlled trial protocol.
- (2017). eRegistries: clinical registries to support women's and children's health.
- (2012). Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by WHO and IADPSG criteria in women with four major dietary patterns: The STORK Groruddalen study.
Academic literature review
- (2013). Adiposity and hyperglycaemia in pregnancy and related health outcomes in European ethnic minorities of Asian and African origin: a review. Food & Nutrition Research (FNR). 18889.
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