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Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen er professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Oslo.
Articles by Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
Are we heading towards a new twist in the regular GP scheme?
- Johannes Bjørnstad Tyrihjell,
- Kine Pedersen,
- Susanne Gerda Værnø,
- Geir Godager,
- Tor Iversen,
- Jon Holte,
- Birgit Abelsen,
- Andreas Pahle,
- Liv Augestad,
- Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen,
- Erik Magnus Sæther
02.09.2024:
It is encouraging to see the increase in available places on GPs' patient lists in Norway. But with more and more GPs reducing patient numbers and becoming municipal employees, driving up the costs of the regular GP scheme, where are we headed? In 2023, several of the negative trends that have been...
How to account for production gains when prioritising healthcare interventions
- Jens Torup Østby,
- Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
20.11.2023:
Priority setting in health care involves the distribution of scarce resources. Changing the rules on priority setting entails a redistribution of resources. We present two proposals on how revised rules could improve total welfare while maintaining an acceptable distribution. The Norwegian...
Covid-19: Simulation models for epidemics
- Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen,
- Emily Annika Burger,
- Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio
18.03.2020:
No human brain has the capacity to think through all possible outcomes of an epidemic. A simulation model can keep track of many individuals and factors that influence the course of the epidemic; however, simulation models can never fully replicate reality. The healthcare service needs answers to a...
Priority-setting in the patients' last years of life
- Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen,
- Christoffer Bugge
28.05.2018:
Hospital admissions increase the closer we get to the end of life. Should we give a lower or higher priority to the treatment of patients in their last years of life than we do today? Elstad and Reinertsen's study of hospital admission rates in the last years of life confirms earlier research that...