Aina Helen Dahlen is responsible for the quality registry for the Norwegian Childhood Cancer Registry.
The registry shall contribute to strengthening the quality of the health care provided to children and adolescents with cancer. Together with the professional community, Aina is responsible for the annual report, which is a useful tool for assessing whether the guidelines are complied with and that patients receive the same health services regardless of where they live.
Aina is secretary of the registry's professional council, an advisory unit consisting of medical experts on childhood cancer. She is responsible for coding, registration and quality assurance of incidence, assessment and treatment variables, follow-up and late effects in patients under the age of 18. She also assists with registry expertise and disclosure of data to the Cancer Registry's data delivery unit and other interested parties, in addition to representing the quality registry in external contexts.
Since 2021, Aina has had the role of safety representative and Akan contact in the Cancer Registry. In addition, she is a superuser in Microsoft Teams, as well as ShareLaTeX.
Background
Previously, Aina has studied social sciences and she has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Lillehammer University College, with a subsequent master's degree in health and social psychology from the University of Oslo in 2014.
She wrote her master's thesis on routine follow-up of childhood cancer survivors with a focus on information about health behaviour and lifestyle.
In addition, she herself has a passion for physical activity and has worked actively as a group exercise instructor since 2010.
Selected publications
- Master's thesis 2014: Information about health behaviour and lifestyle during routine follow-up of childhood cancer survivors
- Annual reports for the National Quality Registry for Childhood Cancer (as of 2015).
