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Articles by Steinar Hunskår
Where do GPs seek help for their illnesses?
- Hogne Sandvik,
- Øystein Hetlevik,
- Jesper Blinkenberg,
- Steinar Hunskår
13.05.2024:
It is generally assumed that doctors enjoy good somatic health, at least on a par with their peers with the same socioeconomic status. However, mental problems, primarily depression and suicide, are somewhat more common among doctors (1–3). The social media campaign #legermåleve (doctors must live)...
Use of non-specific diagnostic codes in out-of-hours services
- Hogne Sandvik,
- Steinar Hunskår
03.08.2020:
In 1992, the National Insurance Agency determined that primary care doctors should use ICPC (International Classification of Primary Care) for coding of diagnoses on reimbursement cards and sickness certifications. The purpose was to establish a consistent system for coding of diagnoses. Norway was...
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...
Contacts with out-of-hours services because of poisonings in Norway 2006 – 15
- Hogne Sandvik,
- Steinar Hunskår
26.06.2017:
Acute poisonings represent a major health problem in Norway. In the period 1999 – 2004, nearly 11 000 hospital admissions and approximately 500 deaths could be related to acute poisonings each year (1). Not all of them are equally dramatic, and many of them are resolved through contact with the...
Out-of-hours doctors’ decisions on call-outs in emergency situations
- Helle-Marie Brennvall,
- Helene Hauken,
- Steinar Hunskår,
- Torben Wisborg,
- Erik Zakariassen
21.04.2015:
Along with the Emergency Medical Communication Centres (EMCCs) and the ambulance service, the out-of-hours primary health care system comprises the emergency medical services outside hospitals (1, 2). According to the Norwegian Index for Medical Emergencies – a decision support tool used by the...
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)...
Use of emergency medical services by patients encompassed by the Regular GP scheme
- Hogne Sandvik,
- Steinar Hunskår,
- Esperanza Diaz
30.10.2012:
In 2010, Norwegian emergency medical services had a total of 1.75 million patient contacts. Three of four contacts involved a consultation with a doctor, somewhat less than 20 % were telephone contacts and 4 % were house calls (1). Compared to other countries, Norwegian emergency medical services...