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Ingrid Miljeteig er lege, professor ved Bergen senter for etikk og prioritering, Universitetet i Bergen og leder av klinisk etikk-komite ved Haukeland universitetssjukehus.
Articles by Ingrid Miljeteig
A Land Safety Code for uncertainty in clinical practice
- Eirik Hugaas Ofstad,
- Stig Haugset Nymo,
- Karin Isaksson Rø,
- Inger Johanne Christiansen,
- Miriam Gustafsson,
- Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
- Håvard Dale,
- Marc Vali Ahmed,
- Ingrid Miljeteig
01.10.2025:
There is a cure that protects patients from overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and doctors from insecurity and burnout. There is a growing awareness of the disconnect between the certain, correct-answer-seeking natural science that medicine is built upon, and real-life clinical practice, where we meet...
Dialogue rather than debate on assisted dying
- Ingrid Miljeteig
19.05.2025:
Important discussions are taking place about life-prolonging treatment, fair priority setting and assisted dying. Challenges arise when these topics are conflated, terms are used as if they are interchangeable, there is a lack of empirical data and arguments from one discourse are used to influence...
Pulmonologists' experiences with palliative sedation for terminally ill patients
- Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
- Reidun Førde,
- Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir,
- Ingrid Miljeteig
30.10.2024:
Palliative sedation has been criticised for being unethical and difficult to distinguish from euthanasia (1). Euthanasia is prohibited under Norwegian law and violates the Code of Ethics for Doctors (2, 3). The so-called Bærum case (4, 5) prompted the Norwegian Medical Association to devise ethical...
Ethical dilemmas for nursing home doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Emily McLean,
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
- Elisabeth Schanche,
- Margrethe Aase Schaufel,
- Ingrid Miljeteig
28.06.2022:
Almost half of the COVID-19 deaths in Europe from the start of the pandemic until January 2021 occurred in nursing homes (1). In Norway, the majority of COVID-19 deaths in 2020 were in the over-80s, and many of these people died in nursing homes (2). Norwegian nursing home residents have an average...
Towards universal health coverage for undocumented migrants?
- Andrea Melberg,
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
- Astrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs,
- Ingrid Miljeteig
20.12.2017:
Norway has committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Securing universal health coverage for all is one of the key objectives. This commitment challenges Norwegian practice and legislation relating to undocumented migrants’ access to healthcare services in Norway. In 2015, the Millennium...
Ethics capacity building in low-income countries: Ethiopia as a case study
- Ingrid Miljeteig,
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
- Frehiwot Berhane Defaye,
- Dawit Desalegn,
- Ole Frithjof Norheim,
- Olav Hevrøy,
- Kjell Arne Johansson
23.11.2017:
Ethical dilemmas are part of everyday clinical practice, and doctors worldwide must make value-based decisions. In low-income countries with very limited resources, healthcare personnel and policymakers face ethical challenges. Ethiopian policies aim to improve the ethical decision-making competence...
Should patients who use illicit drugs be offered a second heart-valve replacement?
- Ingrid Miljeteig,
- Steinar Skrede,
- Jørund Langørgen,
- Rune Haaverstad,
- Ola Jøsendal,
- Haakon Sjursen,
- Ole Frithjof Norheim
07.05.2013:
IVDUs are particularly prone to infectious endocarditis, with a lifetime incidence of 1 – 11 % (1, 2). Among the estimated 8 200 to 11 500 IVDUs living in Norway (3), there are indications of an increasing incidence of endocarditis with damage to the valves, as in other Western countries (4). At...
Priorities in global health
- Kristine Bærøe,
- Trygve Ottersen,
- Kristiane Eide,
- Hilde Engjom,
- Kjell Arne Johansson,
- Ingrid Miljeteig,
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
- Ole Frithjof Norheim
06.09.2011:
When resources are limited, priorities must be assigned. Prioritisation should depend on various factors such as health benefits, deterioration of prognosis, health inequalities and expenses. These factors should be weighed up against each other and compared. There are many ways of improving the...