Guttorm Raknes

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Guttorm Raknes er dr. philos, spesialist i klinisk farmakologi, overlege ved RELIS Nord-Norge og Dødsårsaksregisteret (Folkehelseinstituttet) og fastlege i Steigen kommune.

Articles by Guttorm Raknes

Local emergency medical communication centres – staffing and populations

Guttorm Raknes,
Tone Morken,
Steinar Hunskår

28.11.2017: LEMCs are a part of the national emergency notification service designed to receive telephone calls and handle requests to the out-of-hours emergency primary health care service (OOH service, legevakt) for emergency assistance (1). Collaboration between the LEMC and the OOH doctor is crucial, and in...

Travel time and distances to Norwegian out-of-hours casualty clinics

Guttorm Raknes,
Tone Morken,
Steinar Hunskår

25.11.2014: Out-of-hours (OOH) emergency health services in Norway are changing. A growing number of municipalities find it difficult to maintain local out-of-hours services and therefore seek to establish inter-municipal collaboration. The on-call burden on GPs will be lessened, which may render positions in...

Travel distance and the utilisation of out-of-hours services

Guttorm Raknes,
Tone Morken,
Steinar Hunskår

25.11.2014: A number of studies have shown that increasing travel distances lead to less use of various health services. Geography may play as large a role as demographic and socioeconomic factors. Examples include the rate of participation in mammography programmes (1), follow-up of patients with dementia (2)...