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Niklas Ekerstad

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

MD, PhD, Associate professor (Docent) in evaluation and health economics.

Presentation

I am MD, PhD, Associate professor (Docent) in evaluation and health economics. I have extensive experience in performing clinical evaluation studies of older adults, and I am supervisor of four PhD students.

Specialist in cardiology and internal medicine; senior consultant cardiologist. I am chairman of The Swedish Society of Medicine’s delegation for medical quality, and I am a member of the quality assurance group, Health Technology Assessment (HTA)-centrum, Region Västra Götaland. Areas of expertise: acute coronary syndromes, older adults, frailty, multimorbidity, risk prediction, quality assessment, priority setting.

Publications

2024

Dariush Javadzadeh, Bjoern W. Karlson, Joakim Alfredsson, Elin Ekerstad, Jenny Hellberg, Johan Herlitz, Niklas Ekerstad (2024) Clinical Frailty Scale score is a predictor of short-, mid- and long-term mortality in critically ill older adults (≥ 70 years) admitted to the emergency department: an observational study BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 24, Article 852 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Terje Jansson Timan, Niklas Ekerstad, Ove Karlsson, Ninni Sernert, Mattias Prytz (2024) One-year mortality rates after standardized management for emergency laparotomy: results from the Swedish SMASH study BJS Open, Vol. 8, Article zrad133 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Normann, Niklas Ekerstad, Eva Angenete, Mattias Prytz (2024) Mortality and morbidity after colorectal cancer resection surgery in elderly patients: a retrospective population-based study in Sweden World Journal of Surgical Oncology, Vol. 22, Article 23 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Hanna Falk Erhag, Gudny Guonadottir, Joakim Alfredsson, Tommy Cederholm, Niklas Ekerstad, Dorota Religa, Bengt Nellgard, Katarina Wilhelmson (2023) The Association Between the Clinical Frailty Scale and Adverse Health Outcomes in Older Adults in Acute Clinical Settings - A Systematic Review of the Literature Clinical Interventions in Aging, Vol. 18, p. 249-261 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Henrik Olsson, Kristina Ahlund, Joakim Alfredsson, David Andersson, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Susanne Guidetti, Mattias Prytz, Niklas Ekerstad (2023) Cross-cultural adaption and inter-rater reliability of the Swedish version of the updated clinical frailty scale 2.0 BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 23, Article 803 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Organisation

Priorities 2018

Unit of Health Care Analysis

The Unit of Health Care Analysis conducts research in three main areas: health economic assessment, decision making in health care, and priority setting in health care and social services.
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Division of Society and Health (SH)

We are an interdisciplinary division with research and education in several subject areas. The division consist of two units, Health Care Analysis and Public Health Science, and includes the Master´s programme in Medical Science.
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Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV)

The research areas at HMV include experimental basic research to clinical, social and public health research. We conduct high-quality education in the sought-after care professions.

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