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Kan forbruk av helsetjenester predikere om pasientene vurderer samhandlingen som god? En longitudinell kohort studie.

Forås, Vibeke Berg
Master thesis
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2015
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Abstract
Background: People with chronic illnesses may require many different healthcare

services and there is need for coordination between these services. The purpose of

this thesis was to investigate whether consumption of healthcare can predict patients'

experience with continuity of care between healthcare services they have had contact

with over a two year period.

Methods: Longitudinal prospective cohort study based on data from three registry of

healthcare consumption in primary and specialist healthcare over two years, and a

questionnaire sent four months later. The dependent variable was how respondents

assessed the continuity of care, and the independent variables were the various

health services within primary and specialist healthcare services, as well as gender,

age, education and health status. The data were analysed descriptive and by logistic

regression analysis.

Results: Of 12,500 invitees, there were 2,983 who responded to the questionnaire.

Response analysis showed that there were only minor differences in responders and

non-responders, the main difference was that the responders were older. The main

finding in the study is that age predicts for consensus with continuity of care. The

youngest are least satisfied with a significant odds ratio of 2.3 (95% CI 1.5 to 3.6, p

<0.001) and the oldest are most satisfied with a significant odds ratio of 7.2 (95% CI

3, 7 to 13.2, p <0.001). Higher education, those living alone and self-reported poor

health and chronic illness predicts less agreement with continuity of care to be good.

Conclusions: The main finding is that age predicts whether patients considering

continuity of care to be good by the oldest are most satisfied. Health condition

predicts the assessment of continuity of care to a certain extent and that consumption

of health care has negligible effect for the assessment of continuity of care.

Relevance: Healthcare services focuses on diagnoses instead of being

patientcentered and the healthcare service is far from being seamless. It is important

to examine how patients considering the continuity of care. It is the patients

themselves who are present and experiencing the entire care pathway, and they

should be more included in the way that questions being asked at the patients level.
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