Browsing Faculty of Medicine by Journals "BMC Health Services Research"
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Readiness to treat and factors associatedwith survival of newborns with breathingdifficulties in Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-07)Background Ethiopia is one of five countries that account for half of the world’s 2.6 million newborn deaths. A quarter of neonatal deaths in Ethiopia are caused by birth asphyxia. Understanding different dimensions of the ... -
Reasons for acute referrals to hospital from general practitioners and out-of-hours doctors in Norway: a registry-based observational study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: General practitioners (GPs) and out-of-hours (OOH) doctors are gatekeepers to acute hospital admissions in many healthcare systems. The aim of the present study was to investigate the whole range of reasons for ... -
Recommended content of referral letters from general practitioners to specialised mental health care: a qualitative multi-perspective study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-08-19)Background: In most Western countries, the referral letter forms the basis for establishing the priority of patients for specialised health care and for the coordination of care between the services. To be able to define ... -
Reducing hospital admissions from nursing homes: a systematic review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-24)Background: The geriatric nursing home population is vulnerable to acute and deteriorating illness due to advanced age, multiple chronic illnesses and high levels of dependency. Although the detriments of hospitalising the ... -
Relational coordination in interprofessional teams and its effect on patient-reported benefit and continuity of care: a prospective cohort study from rehabilitation centres in Western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Rehabilitation services depend on competent professionals who collaborate effectively. Well-functioning interprofessional teams are expected to positively impact continuity of care. Key factors in continuity ... -
The safety attitudes questionnaire - ambulatory version: psychometric properties of the Norwegian translated version for the primary care setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-29)Background: Patient safety culture is how leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines and practices protect patients from adverse events in healthcare. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire is the most widely used ... -
The safety attitudes questionnaire – ambulatory version: psychometric properties of the Norwegian version for nursing homes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Patient safety culture involves leader and staff interaction, routines, attitudes, practices and awareness that influence risks of adverse events in patient care. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is an ... -
Safety measures to prevent workplace violence in emergency primary care centres - a cross-sectional study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-03)Background: Employees in emergency primary care centres (EPCC) have raised personal safety as an issue. Despite a high risk of experiencing workplace violence at EPCCs in Norway, knowledge regarding applied preventive ... -
"Saying no is no easy matter" A qualitative study of competing concerns in rationing decisions in general practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-11-09)Background: The general practitioner in Norway is expected to ensure equity and effectiveness through fair rationing. At the same time, due to recent reforms of the Norwegian health care sector, both the role of economic ... -
Selling my sheep to pay for medicines – household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-03-02)Background: The first month of life is the period with the highest risk of dying. Despite knowledge of effective interventions, newborn mortality is high and utilization of health care services remains low in Ethiopia. In ... -
Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-07-12)Background: In Tanzania, decentralisation processes and reforms in the health sector aimed at improving planning and accountability in the sector. As a result, districts were given authority to undertake local planning and ... -
Stroke unit demand in Norway – present and future estimates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-15)Background: All stroke patients should receive timely admission to a stroke unit (SU). Consequently, most patients with suspected strokes – including stroke mimics (SM) are admitted. The aim of this study was to estimate ... -
Sustainability of healthcare improvement: what can we learn from learning theory?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-08-03)Background Changes that improve the quality of health care should be sustained. Falling back to old, unsatisfactory ways of working is a waste of resources and can in the worst case increase resistance to later initiatives ... -
Telemedicine in diabetes foot care delivery: health care professionals’ experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-18)Background: Introducing new technology in health care is inevitably a challenge. More knowledge is needed to better plan future telemedicine interventions. Our aim was therefore to explore health care professionals’ ... -
Too much or too little opioids to patients receiving opioid agonist therapy in Norway (2013–2017): a prospective cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Dispensations of opioid analgesics to patients on opioid agonist therapy (OAT) may increase the risk of overdoses. The current study’s objectives are to investigate the dispensation rates and mean daily doses ... -
Trends in treatment for patients with depression in general practice in Norway, 2009–2015: nationwide registry-based cohort study (The Norwegian GP-DEP Study)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Depression is highly prevalent, but knowledge is scarce as to whether increased public awareness and strengthened government focus on mental health have changed how general practitioners (GPs) help their depressed ... -
Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-06-14)Background: There is growing evidence that patients frequently bypass primary health care (PHC) facilities in favour of higher level hospitals regardless of substantial additional time and costs. Among the reasons given ... -
Urban settings do not ensure access to services: findings from the immunisation programme in Kampala Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-06)Background: Previous studies on vaccination coverage in developing countries focus on individual- and community-level barriers to routine vaccination mostly in rural settings. This paper examines health system barriers to ... -
Use of health care services among Syrian refugees migrating to Norway: a prospective longitudinal study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Understanding the differential utilization of healthcare services is essential to address the public health challenges. Through the migration process, refugees move from one set of health risk factors to another ... -
“We are like co-wives”: Traditional healers' views on collaborating with the formal Child and Adolescent Mental Health System in Uganda
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-04-10)Background: Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) ...