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Creating the Simulated Patient Through Dialogue: An Approach Based on Bakhtin’s Dialogical Thinking
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)Simulated patients (SP) are being used in medical communication training worldwide. The character of an SP will be trained in advance. However, the dialogue with the student is never fully predictable. The aim of this study ... -
Development, implementation, and pilot study of a sentinel network ("The Watchtowers") for monitoring emergency primary health care activity in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-03-26)Background: In Norway there is a shortage of valid health activity statistics from the primary care out-of-hours services and the pre-hospital emergency health care system. There is little systematic information available ... -
Fiksjonsbasert kommunikasjonstrening i medisinsk utdannelse - med bruk av teaterfaglige virkemidler
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-01-20)Simulated patients are today used world wide in clinical communication training. Using simulated patients will imply the use of theatrical fiction. Basic elements of a theatrical fiction are relocation of time and space ... -
Gestational Age Patterns of Fetal and Neonatal Mortality in Europe: Results from the Euro-Peristat Project
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-16)Background: The first European Perinatal Health Report showed wide variability between European countries in fetal (2.6– 9.1%) and neonatal (1.6–5.7%) mortality rates in 2004. We investigated gestational age patterns of ... -
Giardiasis in Bergen. Outbreak and clinical consequences.
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-11-25)Background Giardia lamblia is a common cause of waterborne disease. It is endemic in many parts of the world, especially where sanitation is poor, but in Europe and North America it is most often encountered in outbreaks ... -
Monitoring activities in out-of-hours emergency primary care in Norway. A special emphasis on nurses telephone triage and counselling
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-11-18)The main aim of this thesis has been to develop and establish an organisation, the Watchtowers, in order to continuously collect valid data from the OOH services in Norway, and to describe the activities. Further, we have ... -
Role of parents in adolescent self-rated health: Norwegian Nord-Trøndelag Health Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-09)Background: Self-rated health (SRH) is a known important predictor of later mortality, morbidity, and health service attendance. From adolescence onwards, this multifactorial composite seems to be relatively stable. ... -
Sentinel monitoring of activity of out-of-hours services in Norway in 2007: an observational study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-07-22)Background: In Norway, no valid activity statistics from the primary health care out-of-hours services or the pre-hospital emergency health care system have previously been available. Methods: The National Centre for ... -
Telephone triage by nurses in primary care out-of-hours services in Norway: an evaluation study based on written case scenarios
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-01-24)Background: The use of nurses for telephone-based triage in out-of-hours services is increasing in several countries. No investigations have been carried out in Norway into the quality of decisions made by nurses regarding ... -
Understanding of and adherence to advice after telephone counselling by nurse: A survey among callers to a primary emergency out-of-hours service in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-09-05)Background: To investigate how callers understand the information given by telephone by registered nurses in a casualty clinic, to what degree the advice was followed, and the final outcome of the condition for the patients. ...