Bilde av Melbye, Hasse
Bilde av Melbye, Hasse
Sekretær General Practice Research Unit in Tromsø hasse.melbye@uit.no +4777644814 95213200 +47 95213200 You can find me here

Hasse Melbye


Job description

Professor emeritus, researcher at Research Unit


  • Carl Llor, Andreas Plate, Lars Bjerrum, Ivan Gentile, Hasse Melbye, Annamaria Staiano et al.:
    C-reactive protein point-of-care testing in primary care—broader implementation needed to combat antimicrobial resistance
    Frontiers in Public Health 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Oliver Van Hecke, Lars Bjerrum, Ivan Gentile, Rogier Hopstaken, Hasse Melbye, Andreas Plate et al.:
    Guidance on C-reactive protein point-of-care testing and complementary strategies to improve antibiotic prescribing for adults with lower respiratory tract infections in primary care
    Frontiers in medicine 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ivan Gentile, Nicola Schiano Moriello, Rogier Hopstaken, Carl Llor, Hasse Melbye, Oliver Senn :
    The Role of CRP POC Testing in the Fight against Antibiotic Overuse in European Primary Care: Recommendations from a European Expert Panel
    Diagnostics (Basel) 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anne Herefoss Davidsen, Stian Andersen, Peder Andreas Halvorsen, Henrik Schirmer, Eirik Reierth, Hasse Melbye :
    Diagnostic accuracy of heart auscultation for detecting valve disease: a systematic review
    BMJ Open 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Annamaria Staiano, Lars Bjerrum, Carl Llor, Hasse Melbye, Rogier Hopstaken, Ivan Gentile et al.:
    C-reactive protein point-of-care testing and complementary strategies to improve antibiotic stewardship in children with acute respiratory infections in primary care
    Frontiers in pediatrics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Per Niklas Benzler Waaler, Hasse Melbye, Henrik Schirmer, Markus Kreutzer Johnsen, Tom Dønnem, Johan Fredrik Ravn et al.:
    Algorithm for predicting valvular heart disease from heart sounds in an unselected cohort
    Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christin Löffler, Attila Altiner, Sandra Blumenthal, Pascale Bruno, An De Sutter, Bart J. De Vos et al.:
    Challenges and opportunities for general practice specific CME in Europe – a narrative review of seven countries
    BMC Medical Education 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • David Gillespie, Nick Francis, Haroon Ahmed, Kerenza Hood, Carl Llor, Patrick White et al.:
    Associations with Post-Consultation Health-Status in Primary Care Managed Acute Exacerbation of COPD
    The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Stian Andersen, Anne Herefoss Davidsen, Henrik Schirmer, Hasse Melbye, Marcus Spigt, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis :
    Interrater and intrarater agreement on heart murmurs
    Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • David Gillespie, Christopher C. Butler, Janine Bates, Kerenza Hood, Hasse Melbye, Rhiannon Phillips et al.:
    Associations with antibiotic prescribing for acute exacerbation of COPD in primary care: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
    British Journal of General Practice 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Hasse Melbye, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Cristina Jacome, Hans Pasterkamp :
    Inspiratory crackles-early and late-revisited: identifying COPD by crackle characteristics
    BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sarah Cook, Anne Elise Eggen, Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock, S Malyutina, M Shapkina, Alexander V Kudryavtsev et al.:
    Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Population Studies in Russia and Norway: Comparison of Prevalence, Awareness and Management.
    The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Hasse Melbye, Jon Helgeland, Øystein Karlstad, Inger Ariansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Torbjørn Wisløff et al.:
    Is the disease burden from COPD in Norway falling off? A study of time trends in three different data sources
    The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Ingrid Johansen Storvoll, Sophie Vanbelle, Hasse Melbye :
    The use of spectrograms improves the classification of wheezes and crackles in an educational setting
    Scientific Reports 21. May 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nick A. Francis, David Gillespie, M. Wootton, Patrick White, Janine Bates, J. Richards et al.:
    Clinical Features and C-Reactive Protein as Predictors of Bacterial Exacerbations of COPD.
    International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nick Francis, David Gillespie, Patrick White, Janine Bates, Rachel Lowe, Bernadette Sewell et al.:
    C-reactive protein point-of-care testing for safely reducing antibiotics for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: The PACE RCT
    Health Technology Assessment 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Rhiannon Phillips, H. Stanton, A. Singh-Mehta, David Gillespie, Janine Bates, Micaela Gal et al.:
    C-reactive protein-guided antibiotic prescribing for COPD exacerbations: A qualitative evaluation
    British Journal of General Practice 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Trond Børvik, Line Evensen, Vania Maris Morelli, Hasse Melbye, Sigrid Kufaas Brækkan, John-Bjarne Hansen :
    Impact of respiratory symptoms and oxygen saturation on the risk of incident venous thromboembolism-the Tromsø study.
    Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH) 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lisa M. E. Dohmen, Marcus Spigt, Hasse Melbye :
    The effect of atmospheric pressure on oxygen saturation and dyspnea: the Tromsø study
    International journal of biometeorology 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Hasse Melbye, Michael Stylidis, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Maria Averina, Henrik Schirmer :
    Prediction of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a general population: the Tromsø study
    ESC Heart Failure 22. December 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Paul Little, Beth Stuart, Nick A. Francis, Elaine Douglas, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Sibyl Anthierens et al.:
    Antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections 12 months after communication and CRP training: A randomized trial
    Annals of Family Medicine 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Cristina Jacome, Johan Ravn, Einar Holsbø, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Hasse Melbye, Lars Ailo Bongo :
    Convolutional Neural Network for Breathing Phase Detection in Lung Sounds
    Sensors 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Cristina Jacome, Anne Herefoss Davidsen, Raimonda Einarsen, Sophie Vanbelle, Hans Pasterkamp et al.:
    Prevalence and clinical associations of wheezes and crackles in the general population: The Troms? study
    BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christopher C. Butler, David Gillespie, Patrick White, Janine Bates, Rachel Lowe, Emma Thomas-Jones et al.:
    C-reactive protein testing to guide antibiotic prescribing for COPD exacerbations
    New England Journal of Medicine 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Trond Børvik, Sigrid Kufaas Brækkan, Line Evensen, Ellen Elisabeth Brodin, Vania Maris Morelli, Hasse Melbye et al.:
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary Disease and risk of mortality in patients with venous thromboembolism - the Tromsø Study
    Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lene Gjelseth Dalbak, Henrik Schirmer, Jørund Straand, Ibrahimu Mdala, Ole Geir Solberg, Hasse Melbye :
    Impaired left ventricular filling is associated with decreased pulse oximetry values
    Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal 2018 DOI
  • Hasse Melbye :
    Nomenclature
    Springer 2018
  • Cristina Isabel Oliveira Jácome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Åshild Myrnes Uhre, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Adventitious and Normal Lung Sounds in the General Population: Comparison of Standardized and Spontaneous Breathing
    Respiratory care 2018 DOI
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Sophie Vanbelle, Peder Andreas Halvorsen, Nick Francis, Jochem W L Cals, Elena A Andreeva et al.:
    International perception of lung sounds: a comparison of classification across some European borders
    BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2017 ARKIV / DOI
  • Morten Grønnesby, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Einar Holsbø, Hasse Melbye, Lars Ailo Bongo :
    Machine Learning Based Crackle Detection
    2017
  • Johan Ravn, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Morten Grønnesby, Hasse Melbye, Lars Ailo Bongo :
    Detection of Wheezes and Breathing Phases Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
    2017
  • Hasse Melbye :
    Proceedings from the 42nd annual conference of the International Lung Sound Association, ILSA 2017
    2017
  • Hasse Melbye, Arnulf Langhammer, Jon Helgeland :
    Changes in smoking and lung function between 2001 and 2016
    2019
  • Peder Andreas Halvorsen, Mette Bech Risør, Hasse Melbye :
    The Stethoscope 2030: Towards Personalized Diagnostics With Digital Auscultation
    2019
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Cristina Jacome, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Prevalence of adventitious lung sounds in a large population sample
    European Respiratory Journal 2018
  • Cristina Jacome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Åshild Myrnes Uhre, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Presence of adventitious lung sounds (LS) differ between spontaneous and standardized breathing
    European Respiratory Journal 2018
  • Cristina Jacome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Åshild Myrnes Uhre, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Presence of adventitious lung sounds (LS) differ between spontaneous and standardized breathing
    2018
  • Hasse Melbye :
    The value of lung sounds in the assessment of patients with respiratory conditionsand. Introduction & Recommended Terminology for Lung Sounds
    2018
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, Cristina Jacome, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Prevalence of adventitious lung sounds in a large population sample
    2018
  • Arnulf Langhammer, Suzanne Crowley, Sjur Hummerfeldt, Hasse Melbye, Torbjørn Nag, Øistein Svanes :
    På tide med nye referanseverdier og grenseverdier for spirometri
    Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2018 DOI
  • C Jacome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, A Marques, Hasse Melbye :
    Lung sounds intensity: can we rely on recordings at spontaneous airflow?
    2017
  • M Grønnesby, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, E Holsbø, Hasse Melbye, LA Bongo :
    Machine learning based crackles detection
    2017
  • J. Ravn, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, M Grønnesby, Hasse Melbye, LA Bongo :
    Detection of wheezes and breathing phases using deep convolutional neural networks
    2017
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, C Jacome, H Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Sub-classification of wheezes and crackles is not helpful when lung auscultation is used for detecting decreased lung function in adults
    2017
  • C Jacome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, H Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    The influence of adventitious sounds and artifacts on the frequency and intensity of normal respiratory sounds
    2017
  • C Jacome, Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, H Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Lung sounds intensity: is there a difference between spontaneous and target airflow?
    2017
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, C Jacome, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Crackles and wheezes in 4038 adults aged 40 years or more – an epidemiological study with lung sound recordings – The Tromsø Study
    2017
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, C Jacome, H Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Prevalence and associations of wheezes and crackles in a general adult population - the Tromsø 7 study
    2017
  • Juan Carlos Aviles Solis, C Jacome, H Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye :
    Improved classification of lung sounds by medical students when spectrograms are displayed
    2017
  • CT Heidelberg, Hasse Melbye, M Sandsund :
    Respiratory health status among Norwegian fish production workers on board fishing trawlers
    2017

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    Research interests

    Doctorial thesis: ”The diagnosis of pneumonia in adults in general practice” (1992).

     Main topics: Evaluaton of examinations and tests performed in general practice for the diagnosis of respiratory illness, such as pulmonary auscultation, spirometry, pulse oximetry, and CRP-test. Lower resopiratory tract infections. Exacerbations of asthma and COPD

     Research visit at Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia01.08.05 - 20.06.06.  Department of General Practice, University of Cardiff, Wales, April 2008, and March-May 2011.   Member of  GRIN (general practice respiratory infection network)