Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim"
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Budgeting in public hospital trusts: Surplus, optimism, and accuracy
Lindaas, Nils Arne; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Magnussen, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Costs and quality at the hospital level in the nordic countries
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Goude, Fanny; Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg; Häkkinen, Unto; Kruse, Marie; Medin, Emma; Rehnberg, Clas; Rättö, Hanna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article develops and analyzes patient register-based measures of quality for the major Nordic countries. Previous studies show that Finnish hospitals have significantly higher average productivity than hospitals in ... -
Economic incentives and diagnostic coding in a public health care system
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Magnussen, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We analysed the association between economic incentives and diagnostic coding practice in the Norwegian public health care system. Data included 3,180,578 hospital discharges in Norway covering the period 1999–2008. For ... -
Effects of GP characteristics on unplanned hospital admissions and patient safety. A 9-year follow-up of all Norwegian out-of-hours contacts
Svedahl, Ellen Rabben; Pape, Kristine; Austad, Bjarne; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background There are substantial differences in hospital referrals between general practitioners (GPs); however, there is little research on the consequences for patient safety and further healthcare use. Objective To ... -
General practitioners ending their practice and impact on patients' health, healthcare use and mortality: a protocol for national registry cohort studies in Norway, 2008 to 2021
Vinjerui, Kristin Hestmann; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Asheim, Andreas; Carlsen, Fredrik; Mjølstad, Bente Prytz; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Pape, Kristine; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction Continuous general practitioner (GP) and patient relations associate with positive health outcomes. Termination of GP practice is unavoidable, while consequences of final breaks in relations are less explored. ... -
High volumes of recent surgical admissions, time to surgery, and 60-day mortality
Nilsen, Sara Marie; Asheim, Andreas; Carlsen, Fredrik; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Johnsen, Lars Gunnar; Vatten, Lars Johan; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Few studies have investigated potential consequences of strained surgical resources. The aim of this cohort study was to assess whether a high proportion of concurrent acute surgical admissions, tying up hospital surgical ... -
High ward occupancy, bedspacing, and 60 day mortality for patients with myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure
Asheim, Andreas; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Aam, Stina; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik; Janszky, Imre; Vatten, Lars Johan; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract Aims To study the consequences of crowded wards among patients with cardiovascular disease. Methods and results This is a cohort study among 201 801 patients with 258 807 admissions who were acutely admitted for ... -
Hospitals' Discharge Tendency and Risk of Death - An Analysis of 60,000 Norwegian Hip Fracture Patients
Nilsen, Sara Marie; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Carlsen, Fredrik; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Johnsen, Lars Gunnar; Vatten, Lars Johan; Asheim, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Purpose: A reduction in the length of hospital stay may threaten patient safety. This study aimed to estimate the effect of organizational pressure to discharge on 60-day mortality among hip fracture patients. Patients ... -
How do busy hospital circumstances affect mortality and readmission within 60 days: A cohort study of 680 000 acute admissions in Norway
Nilsen, Sara Marie; Asheim, Andreas; Carlsen, Fredrik; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Vatten, Lars Johan; Aam, Stina; Davies, Neil Martin; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objective To study mortality and readmissions for older patients admitted during more and less busy hospital circumstances. Design Cohort study where we identified patients that were admitted to the same hospital, ... -
Impact of altering referral threshold from out-of-hours primary care to hospital on patient safety and further health service use: a cohort study
Svedahl, Ellen Rabben; Pape, Kristine; Austad, Bjarne; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik; Davies, Neil Martin; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives To estimate the impact of altering referral thresholds from out-of-hours services on older patients’ further use of health services and risk of death. Design Cohort study using patient data from primary and ... -
Kvalitet og produktivitet i norske sykehus
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)I følge økonomisk teori vil sterke incentiver knyttet til kostnadsreduksjon kunne gå på bekostning av tjenestenes kvalitet, i det minste hvis tjenesteprodusentene driver effektivt, og incentiver knyttet til kvantitet bør ... -
Mortality and subsequent healthcare use among older patients discharged to a municipality with excess demand for elderly care
Bjørnelv, Gudrun Maria Waaler; Asheim, Andreas; Nilsen, Sara Marie; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Carlsen, Fredrik; Aam, Stina; Kimbell, Elizabeth Anna; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)There is limited knowledge on how excess demand for elderly care influences patient outcomes. We used a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of discharging elderly patients from hospital to municipalities with ... -
New Public Management and hospital efficiency: the case of Norwegian public hospital trusts
Lindaas, Nils Arne; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Magnussen, Jon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)New Public Management-inspired reforms in the Norwegian hospital sector have introduced several features from the private sector into a predominantly public healthcare system. Since the late 1990s, several reforms have ... -
Predicting diagnostic coding in hospitals: individual level effects of price incentives
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of this paper is to test if implicit price incentives influence the diagnostic coding of hospital discharges. We estimate if the probability of being coded as a complicated patient was related to a specific ... -
Productivity growth, case mix and optimal size of hospitals. A 16-year study of the Norwegian hospital sector
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Magnussen, Jon (Journal article, 2017)Background and objectives This paper analyses productivity growth in the Norwegian hospital sector over a period of 16 years, 1999–2014. This period was characterized by a large ownership reform with subsequent hospital ... -
Productivity in the Norwegian hospital sector: Financing, quality, coding and comparability
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:302, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Norsk sammendrag Produktivitet blant norske sykehus: Finansiering, kvalitet, koding og internasjonal sammenlignbarhet I en tid med aldrende befolkning og teknologisk utvikling er sykehustjenester i offentlige og universelle ... -
Reablement in a small municipality, a survival analysis
Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Lillefjell, Monica; Anthun, Kirsti Sarheim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Reablement is a municipal service given to patients at home. The purpose of the service is to assist recovery after hospital discharges or other sudden changes in a patient’s functional level. The service is ... -
Risk for referral to the child welfare system following parental relationship transitions in Norway
Hemler, Mary Elizabeth; Kojan, Bente Heggem; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Fauske, Halvor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background There is a lack of knowledge concerning how changes in family structures are associated with involvement in child welfare systems. Particularly little attention has been paid to the role of parental relationship ... -
Scale and quality in Nordic hospitals
Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim; Häkkinen, Unto; Kruse, Marie; Rehnberg, Clas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Empirical analysis of hospitals in production economics often find little or no evidence of scale economies and quite small optimal sizes. Medical literature on the other hand provides evidence of better results for hospitals ... -
Statistics as a Technology of Governance: The Norwegian Need for Numbers & Numbers for Need
Tøndel, Gunhild; Anthun, Kjartan Sarheim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Purpose - This study explores the development in Norway from an awareness of the need for numbers to govern in the 70s to a statistical information system launched in 2006, called IPLOS, to respond to this need. The article ...