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Institutt for allmenn- og samfunnsmedisin
Universitetet i Oslo
Articles by Elin Olaug Rosvold
Admissions to the medical department – who admits and why
- Jan Robert Grøndahl,
- Øystein Fossdal,
- Torgeir Hauge-Iversen,
- Einar Husebye,
- Elin Olaug Rosvold,
- Trygve Kongshavn
08.05.2018:
Approximately 900 000 patients are admitted to somatic hospital wards in Norway each year (1), and approximately three-quarters of them are admitted to an internal medicine unit (2). The 98 beds at the medical department of Drammen Hospital account for approximately one per cent of the total number...
Communication about symptoms of eating disorders in the general practitioner surgery
- Tori Flaatten Halvorsen,
- Elin Olaug Rosvold,
- Birgit Johanne Rydså,
- Tove Skarbø,
- Ole Rikard Haavet
11.11.2014:
An eating disorder is a mental illness in which the sufferer’s daily life is dominated by thoughts and behaviour associated with food, weight and the body (1). The most common symptoms of an eating disorder are intake of too little food (restrictive food intake), self-induced vomiting, over...
Patients’ experience of their general practitioner’s follow-up of serious eating disorders
- Tori Flaatten Halvorsen,
- Ole Rikard Haavet,
- Birgit Johanne Rydså,
- Tove Skarbø,
- Elin Olaug Rosvold
11.11.2014:
In 2002, a general practitioner (GP) had an average of ten patients with an eating disorder requiring treatment on his/her list – one with anorexia and nine with bulimia (1). More recent epidemiological studies give no reason to believe that eating disorders have increased, but the number of women...