Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Skarshaug, Lena Janita"
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Contact with primary health care physicians before an acute hospitalisation
Skarshaug, Lena Janita; Svedahl, Ellen Rabben; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Steinsbekk, Aslak; Pape, Kristine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objectives: To assess contacts with general practitioners (GPs), both regular GPs and out-of-hours GP services (OOH) during the year before an emergency hospital admission. Design: Longitudinal design with register-based ... -
How does general practitioner discontinuity affect healthcare utilisation? An observational cohort study of 2.4 million Norwegians 2007-2017
Skarshaug, Lena Janita; Kaspersen, Silje Lill; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Pape, Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Objectives Patients may benefit from continuity of care by a personal physician general practitioner (GP), but there are few studies on consequences of a break in continuity of GP. Investigate how a sudden discontinuity ... -
Increasing workload in Norwegian general practice – a qualitative study
Svedahl, Ellen Rabben; Pape, Kristine; Toch-Marquardt, Marlen; Skarshaug, Lena Janita; Kaspersen, Silje Lill; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Austad, Bjarne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in securing and coordinating appropriate use of healthcare services, by providing primary and preventive healthcare and by acting as gatekeepers for secondary ... -
Patients’ use of general practitioners in Norway
Skarshaug, Lena Janita (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:376, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary Background: General practice (GP) medicine is a cornerstone in many countries’ health services. In Norway, the establishment of the regular general practitioner (GP) scheme in 2001 introduced a structural ...