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New Study Reveals Ongoing Rise in Psychotropic Drug Use Among Children and Young Adults in Denmark

A comprehensive Danish study highlights a sustained and significant increase in the use of medication for ADHD, depression, and sleep disorders among 12-24-year-olds. The number of new users of these medications has risen from 18,081 in 2019 to 28,083 in 2023.

New Associate Professor at OPEN

Jette Marcussen has been appointed as an associate professor in well-being, loss and grief at the Research Unit OPEN, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

Kassim Javaid is appointed adjunct professor at the Department of Clinical Research

The British rheumatologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Kassim Javaid, has been appointed as an adjunct professor at the Research Unit OPEN, University of Southern Denmark. As a specialist in fracture epidemiology, life course epidemiology, and rare bone diseases, Dr. Javaid is professor at University of Oxford

Patient complaints can strengthen Danish hospitals: new research points to the future of care

Systematic review of complaints opens the door for improved communication, better care and a more patient-centred health service in Denmark.

Inaugural seminar - Professor Katrine Hass Rubin and Adjunct Professor Kassim Javaid - March 8, 2024

”A research agenda to predict and prevent osteoporotic fractures in Denmark"

Professor Christine Stabell Benn has been awarded the George Macdonald Medal

The medal is awarded by The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, for outstanding research leading to improvement of health in the tropics.

Danish children, adolescents and young adults are using more psychotropic drugs after the COVID-19 pandemic

Compared to before the pandemic, there has been an increase in psychotropic drug use and psychiatric disorders in Danish children, adolescents and young adults. This is shown by a large Danish study including all 5-24-year-old in Denmark with data until June 2022.

Inaugural seminar Clinical Professor Søren Fryd Birkeland - January 10th, 2023

”Better psychiatric services? – Scientific studies of barriers and prospects for provision of good mental health care"

OPEN PhD student wins award

Lise Gehrt wins award

Grant given to research in diabetic eyedisease

The project is conducted in close cooporation with OPEN researchers

Reception on the occasion of new Head of OPEN

OPEN is on Twitter

Get updates about OPEN and about research in the Region of Southern Denmark - quick and easy. Follow @open-dk at twitter.com!

OPEN’s 10 Year Anniversary Seminar

We wish to invite you to celebrate OPEN’s 10 Year Anniversary with us, December 6th 2018.

OPEN Annual report 2017

You can read about OPEN's progress and development for 2017 in the Annual report.

9000 brains move from Aarhus to Odense

OPEN will be responsible for the IT infrastructure when 9000 brains move from Aarhus to Odense

PhD dissertation by Lea Deichmann Nielsen

Invitation to PhD oral defense session on May 17

PhD dissertation by Mikaela Augustussen

Invitation to PhD oral defense session on May 24

OPEN REDCap course: Databases for clinical research

An introduction course for clinical researchers in the Region of Southern Denmark

OPEN's biobank in the National Biobankregister

Biobanks in OPEN are now searchable in the National Biobank register

OPEN Registry: From idea to research

OPEN Register course

OPEN will soon be open for all health researchers at hospitals in the Region of Southern Denmark

From the 1st of January 2018 OPEN will be accessible for health researchers at the regional hospital units: Littlebelt Hospital, South-West Jutland Hospital, South Jutland Hospital incl. Kong Christian X’s Hospital (Hospital of Rheumatology) and the Hospital of Psychiatry.

Cancelled! OUH TALKS on register based research

Unfortunately, this talk has been cancelled due to illness. A new date will be announced soon. OUH TALKS by Jennifer Harris, adjunct professor at OPEN, Department of Clinical Research, SDU

OPEN Registry: From idea to research

OPEN Register course

KBF (Biobank) is closed in July

The administrative projects office, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology (KBF) will be closed in July

OPEN's Annual Report 2016

OPEN's Annual Report 2016 is ready

PhD course in datamanagement plan and responsible handling of research data

PhD course - fall 2017

Katrine Hass Rubin – new specialist of register-based research

OPEN expands with a specialist of register-based research 1st of May 2017

Reorganisation of OPEN's management structure

1st of May a new management structure was implemented in OPEN

New project coordinator and quality responsible at OPEN

Mette Lindholm Eriksen began the 1st of February as a project coordinator and quality responsible at OPEN

New student worker at OPEN

Josefine Bak Højer Christensen started as a student worker at OPEN on the 1st of February 2017

500,000 samples in the OPEN biobank

The OPEN biobank has grown steadily since its inception in 2008 and it has now more than half a million specimens.

OPEN Analyse – Presentation of a new analysis environment for research data

OPEN has established a research environment where you as researchers can perform analyses on your pseudo anonymised research data. The analysis environment, OPEN Analyse, is part of the implementation of Odense University Hospital and Department of Clinical Research’s research strategy for 2016-2020.

Danish Biobank Network Meeting

Invitation: Statens Serum Institut invites you to the Danish Biobank Network Meeting on February 3rd 2017. The event is open to all.

OPEN's Postdoc receives 300,000 DKK from Lundbeckfonden

Mette Bliddal, Postdoc at OPEN, has received 300,000 DKK from Lundbeck's funds for health research.

Christine Stabell Benn holds lecture on non-specific immunomodulation by vaccines

OPEN PhD-student is set to defend her PhD

OPEN's PhD-student Mina Nicole Holmgaard Händel is going to defend her PhD on December 21st 2016

OPEN PhD-student is set to defend her PhD

OPEN's PhD-student Mina Nicole Holmgaard Händel is going to defend her PhD on December 21st 2016

OPEN is looking to recruit a project coordinator and quality responsible

Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN) is looking for a project coordinator and quality responsible

New Associate Professor of epidemiology at OPEN

Ane Bærent Fisker is associated with OPEN as Associate Professor of Epidemiology from May 15, 2016.

New PhD-student at OPEN

Jette Marcussen is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project "Mental health perspective on children's double bereavement of parental divorce and parental death".

OPEN has now reached more than 300 projects

OPEN is now involved in more than 300 projects

New PhD-student at OPEN

Kirsten Kjær Johansen Kattballe is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: "Preventing coercion among psychiatric outpatients by Early Recognition Method”.

OPEN's annual report 2015

OPEN's annual report 2015 has been published

New PhD-student at OPEN

Debbie Salling Norring-Agerskov is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: "Biochemical and genetic factors as predictors of mortality in hip fracture patients”.

New PhD-student at OPEN

Mikaela Augustussen is affiliated with OPEN as PhD-student with the project: "Palliative care for Greenlandic cancer patients in Greenland and Denmark - a PhD-study"

Faroese Tóra Petersen visiting Odense

Tóra Petersen, chairwoman of the Research Committee at the National Hospital of the Faroe Islands in Torshavn, is in these days visiting Odense.

PCOS - a disease with positive effects

OPEN's postdoc, Kathrine Hass Rubin, has been part of a study, which has found positive effects of the PCOS disease. This has resulted in an article on OUH's website.

Kursus i ansvarlig og korrekt håndtering af forskningsdata

Forskeruddannelsesprogrammet i Klinisk Forskning har sammen med OPEN udviklet dette korte kursus i ”Ansvarlig og korrekt håndtering af forskningsdata for seniorforskere på OUH/SDU”

New biostatician at OPEN

February 1st 2016, Sören Möller is affiliated with OPEN as a biostatician

OPEN Pharmacoepidemiology Seminar

On March 8th 2016, OPEN holds a Pharmacoepidemiology Seminar, where, among others, Professor Suzanne Cadarette from Leslie Dean Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, will be speaking.

New PhD-student at OPEN

Ellen Boldrup Tingleff is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: ”Reduction of mechanical restraint in forensic psychiatry - Patient and relatives’ perceptions and perspectives on mechanical restraint in forensic psychiatry”.

The Danish Medicine Agency on inspection at OPEN

On the 16 and 17 December OPEN was GCP-inspected by the Danish Medicines Agency.

OPEN is looking to recruit a postdoc

Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN) is looking for a dynamic postdoc in register-based and clinical epidemiological research (37 hours/week).

OPEN is looking to recruit a biostatistician/statistician

Odense University Hospital is looking to recruit a dynamic biostatistician/statistician (37 hours/week) for our research infrastructure OPEN (Odense Patient data Explorative Network).

New PhD-student at OPEN

Emil Rossing is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: ”mimi - mHealth to increase measles immunization”.

Apply for support for biobanking

OPEN support for establishment of biobank for future research – Application deadline September 30th 2015

Annual report 2014

OPEN's annual report 2014 has been published

New PhD-student at OPEN

Andreas Rieckmann is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project:”Long-term non-specific effects of BCG and smallpox vaccinations”.

Invitation: Jennifer Harris' inaugural seminar

On the occasion of Jennifer Harris’ appointment as adjunct professor at OPEN Odense Patient data Explorative Network at the Department of Clinical Research, the Faculty of Health Sciences hereby invites you to attend an inaugural seminar.

New research student at OPEN

Camilla Rye is affiliated with OPEN as a pre-graduate research student, where she will be working on the project: "Validation of diagnosis codes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)".

New thesis students at OPEN

Open has assigned two new graduate students, who will work on projects within Cancer in Denmark and Inflammatory Bowel Disease respectively

OUH's cold store will be closed down 25 February till 29 March 2015

New PhD-student at OPEN

Majken Munk Brønserud is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: "“PROLUC - Patient reported quality of life in lung cancer patients”.

New PhD-student at OPEN

Lea Deichmann Nielsen is affiliated with OPEN as a PhD-student with the project: ” Development of the MR-CRAS (Mechanical Restraint – Confounding-Risk-Alliance-Score) and validation of its measurement properties among forensic psychiatric staff and experts”.

Apply for support for biobanking

OPEN support for establishment of biobank for future research – Application deadline September 1st 2015

Ulrich Heide Køhler - New data manager at OPEN

OPEN expands with another data manager per 1st February 2015

New student worker at OPEN

Mathias Rabæk Christiansen is affiliated to OPEN as student worker pr. 1st December 2014

New PhD-student at OPEN

Stina Meyer Larsen is affiliated to OPEN as a PhD-student on the project "Development and implementation of a client-centered perspective in the dissemination process of welfare technology for elderly - an action research study"

Vaccine research nominated as Danish Research Result of the Year

The research result "Vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella also protects against diarrhoea and otitis" is among the nominated as Danish Research Result of the Year by Videnskab.dk. OPEN's Professor Christine Stabell Benn is the head of the research group behind this discovery, OPEN's Associate Professor Henrik Ravn is also part of the group.

New Adjunct Professor affiliated to OPEN

1 November 2014 Senior Researcher, M.A., PhD Jennifer Harris is affiliated to OPEN as Adjunct Professor...

PhD-student at OPEN

In June 2014 Ingrid Charlotte Andersen started as PhD-student at OPEN with the project: ”Participating in care characterized of transitions between hospital and home – seen in a perspective of patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and their families”

OPEN IBD seminar

The seminar takes place at J.B. Winsløws Vej 9a, 3. floor, room 4.39, Odense, November 20th 2014, 3 PM

Danish member of the board of ASBMR

Professor at OPEN, Bo Abrahamsen has been elected as member of the Board of Directors of The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

Apply for support for biobanking

OPEN support for establishment of biobank for future research – Application deadline September 1st 2014

Associate Professor in Biostatistics at OPEN

By May 1st OPEN has employed Henrik Ravn in a combined position as Senior Researcher at Bandim Health Project and Research Center for Vitamins and Vaccines (CVIVA), SSI and Associate Professor in biostatistics at OPEN...

OPEN employs new Professor in Nursing

March 1st 2014 Lise Hounsgaard was appointed new Professor at OPEN and Docent at University College Lillebaelt...

Peter Bjødstrup Jensen - new SQL data manager

Peter was employed as data manager for OPEN on December 1st 2013...

Apply for support for biobanking

OPEN support for establishment of biobanks for future research – Application deadline March 1st 2014

Inaugural seminar - OPEN Professor

Inaugural seminar for Professor Christine Stabell Benn ”Expect the unexpected: The effect of health interventions in real life”. The seminar takes place on December 16th, 2013 from 14:00 hrs. at Statens Serum Institute...

Katrine Hass Rubin new Research Assistant

September 1st 2013 Katrine Hass Rubin was employed as Research Assistant at OPEN and on November 13th she defended her PhD-thesis...

Research Assistent at OPEN

Mina Nicole Holmgaard Händel started as Research Assistent at OPEN on July 1st...

OPEN Immunology Symposium

Among others - Christine Stabell Benn: Introduction to the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau: a platform for studying non-specific and sex-differential effects of vaccines and micronutrients.

New OPEN PhD-student

PhD-student Stine Byberg is affiliated with OPEN in regards to her PhD-project: "The effect on all-cause child mortality of the current national policy of limiting measles vaccination to children below 12 months of age in Guinea-Bissau"...

Lars Soegaard - Responsible for OPEN data management of five psychiatry projects (RESCueH)

Lars Soegaard was employed as new data manager for OPEN on August 1st...

Apply for support for biobanking

OPEN support for establishment of a research biobanks – Application deadline September 1st 2013

300.000 tubes in the biobank

OPEN’s biobank now contains more than 300.000 tubes… and wish for more!

OUH and SDU employees Professor in Global Health

Starting April 15th 2013, Christine Stabell Benn has been appointed both consultant at the Bandim Health Project, Statens Serum Institute, and Clinical Professor in Global Health at the research unit Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN) at the Institute of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Odense University Hospital (OUH).

New 5 year funding for OPEN

The continuation of OPEN remains one of the cornerstones of OUH's research strategy, the focus is amongst others to further develop facilities for carrying out clinical trials ...

OPENs biobank samples in OUH's freezer house

Odense University Hospital's new freezer house at is -80 degrees Celsius has been taken into use...

Support for participation in seminar at Statistics Denmark

Apply for OPEN support for participation in Seminar on Survey- and Register Data at Statistics Denmark

Clinical Associate Professor Erik Jakobsen

Erik Jakobsen has by the first of September 2012 been affiliated OPEN as Clinical Associate Professor...

Courses in SurveyXact

Make your electronic questionnaire or use SurveyXact as a tool for registration of clinical data...

Data from Statistics Denmark

OPEN is now authorized for external electronic access to selected data sets from Statistics Denmark

New PhD-student with OPEN affiliation

Trine Maria Mejnert Jørgensen has begone her PhD-project: "Familiar abdominal aortic aneurysms - a national case-control study"...

Puk Leick new PhD-student

Puk Leick has begon her PhD-project "The influence of physical activity on sleep quality, diurnal rhythm and their possible relationship with metabolic syndrome – a twin study" ...

Professor Anders Green affiliated OPEN

Professor, DMSc Anders Green has by the first of August been affiliated OPEN in order to support and develop OPENs epidemiological research.

New data manager with the responsibility for user contact and application development

Erik Holm-Petersen is employed as new datamanager for OPEN by February 1th

David Hass – new data manager with the responsibility for running and developing the database

David Hass is employed as new datamanager for OPEN on January 4th.--

OPEN reception

Visit OPENs new offices…

Janni Brødbæk - secretary for OPEN

October 1th Janni Brødbæk is employeed as secretary for OPEN.

Professor Kirsten Ohm Kyvik affiliated OPEN

Head of Department, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Kirsten Ohm Kyvik has by the first of June been appointed new professor with special responsibilities at the Clinical Institute at the University of Southern Denmark and she has been affiliated OPEN, to promote the creation of an epidemiological service facility.

Bioanalyst affiliated OPEN

Mette Møller Andreasen has been employeed by the first of January

Professor affiliated OPEN

Consultant Bo Abrahamsen has by the first of March been hired as new professor of clinical epidemiological research at the Clinical Institute at University of Southern Denmark and has been affiliated with OPEN to promote the creation of an epidemiological service function.

inauguration of OPEN - program