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- Agreus, Lars, et al.
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Stor överförskrivning och ökat bruk av protonpumpshämmare : Utbildning och information är en nyckel till att vägleda läkare och allmänhet till rätt användning [Significant over- and misuse of PPIs]
- 2021
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Ingår i: Läkartidningen. - Stockholm, Sweden : Läkartidningen Förlag AB. - 0023-7205 .- 1652-7518. ; 118
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PPIs (Proton-pump inhibitors) offers the best treatment for acid related diseases. The predominant indications for PPI prescription are:GERDeradication of H. pylori-infection in combination with antibioticsH. pylori-negative peptic ulcer healing of and prophylaxis against NSAID/COXIB--induced gastroduodenal lesions acid hypersecretory states such as Zollinger-Ellisons syndrome.The market for PPIs continues to expand in most countries. A significant over- and misuse of PPIs prevails in hospital care as well as in general practice. The predominant reasons for and mechanisms behind the over- and misuse of PPIs are well recognised. The most important consequences of this overprescription of PPIs are increasing medical costs and risk for long-term adverse side effects. Continued education and dedicated information are key factors to guide physicians, medical personnel and patients to adopt to generally accepted principles for and balanced use of PPIs.
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- Borgquist, Lars, 1944-, et al.
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Magsårssjukdomens paradigmskiften – från högspecialiserad vårdorganisation till egenvård [The paradigm shift for peptic ulcer disease]
- 2018
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Ingår i: Läkartidningen. - Stockholm, Sweden : Läkartidningen Förlag AB. - 0023-7205 .- 1652-7518. ; 115
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Knowledge development and paradigm shift for peptic ulcer disease is described over a fifty-year period using four levels of knowledge that place demands on the healthcare organization. When medical knowledge reached a healing level, continuity became subordinate. However, accessibility to treatment became more important. An important task for future healthcare will be to define and create broader knowledge structures. Efficiency losses can occur when control instruments apply to medical problems at low levels of knowledge which are not mature for this.
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- Agreus, L, et al.
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The cost of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, dyspepsia and peptic ulcer disease in Sweden
- 2002
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Ingår i: PharmacoEconomics (Auckland). - 1170-7690 .- 1179-2027. ; 20:5, s. 347-355
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background and objective: Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) involve a substantial cost to Swedish society. There is a lack of up-to-date nationwide cost estimates after 1985. This study was conducted to present a comprehensive and updated cost analysis and study the change over time of the national cost of these disorders. Design and setting: Primarily, data from National Swedish databases and secondly, data from databases from the County of Uppsala for 1997 were used for the calculations and estimations. Perspective: Swedish societal perspective. Results: The total cost to Swedish society of dyspepsia, PUD and GORD in 1997 was $US424 million, or $US63 per adult. Direct costs totalled $US258 million (61%) while indirect costs totalled $US166 million (39%). The highest proportions of costs were due to drugs and sick leave, these being 37 and 34%, respectively. Conclusions: The cost of dyspepsia and GORD is substantial for patients, health providers and society. Since 1985, drug costs have increased substantially while the cost of sick leave has decreased.
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- Agvall, Björn, 1963-, et al.
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Cost of heart failure in Swedish primary healthcare
- 2005
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0281-3432 .- 1502-7724. ; 23, s. 227-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives. To calculate the cost for patients with heart failure (HF) in a primary healthcare setting. Design. Retrospective study of all available patient data during a period of one year. Setting. Two healthcare centers in Linköping in the southeastern region of Sweden, covering a population of 19 400 inhabitants. Subjects. A total of 115 patients with a diagnosis of HF. Main outcome measures. The healthcare costs for patients with HF and the healthcare utilization concerning hospital days and visits to doctors and nurses in hospital care and primary healthcare. Results. The mean annual cost for a patient with HF was SEK 37 100. There were no significant differences in cost between gender, age, New York Heart Association functional class, and cardiac function. The distribution of cost was 47% for hospital care, 22% for primary healthcare, 18% for medication, 5% for nursing home, and 6% for examinations. Conclusion. Hospital care accounts for the largest cost but the cost in primary healthcare is larger than previously shown. The total annual cost for patients with HF in Sweden is in the range of SEK 5.0–6.7 billion according to this calculation, which is higher than previously known.Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02813430500197647
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- Arrelöv, Britt, et al.
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Influence of local structural factors on physicians' sick-listing practice : a population-based study
- 2005
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Ingår i: European Journal of Public Health. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1101-1262 .- 1464-360X. ; 15:5, s. 470-4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Physicians have a central role as gatekeepers to the social security system, includingsick-listing. Variation in physicians’ sick-listing practices has been demonstrated in several studies. Theobjective of this study was to determine whether local structural factors affect sick-listing practice.Methods: A total of 57 563 consecutive sick-listing certificates, issued during 4 months in 1995 and2 months in 1996, were collected from the local branches of the National Social Insurance Office ineight Swedish counties. County code, local community population size and presence of a hospital in thearea were used as indicators of local structural factors. Length of the sick-listing certificates and of thesick-listing episodes were used as outcome variables. Results: After ajustment for the influence of categoryof issuing physician, patients’ age, sex and diagnosis (‘case mix’), and type of certificate there was alarge variation of the length of the sick-listing certificates and of the sick-listing episodes betweencounties, between communities of various size and between communities with or without a hospitalin the area. All these factors were independently and significantly correlated to the length of thecertificate and of the sick-listing episode. Conclusions: The results support the hypothesis that physicians’sick-listing practice is influenced by local structural factors.
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- Arrelöv, B, et al.
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The influence of change of legislation concerning sickness absence on physicians' performance as certifiers : A population-based study
- 2003
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Ingår i: Health Policy. - 0168-8510 .- 1872-6054. ; 63:3, s. 259-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, a change of the legislation for sickness absence became effective on 1st October, 1995. The purpose of the change was to reduce costs for sickness absence by exclusion of non-medical criteria for sick-listing, more part-time sick-listing and faster rehabilitation. This study was conducted in order to describe and analyse certification practice of various physician categories, before and after the change in legislation. Thirty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty certificates for sickness absence, collected by the local offices of the National Social Insurance Board in eight Swedish counties, fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The number of certificates decreased temporarily. The number of certified net days, i.e. crude days multiplied by degree, tended to increase and there was no shift from full to partial sick-listing during the period. There were small changes regarding case mix, i.e. patient characteristics, and sick-listing physician category. The results were almost unchanged when these small changes were taken into account. General practitioners issued significantly shorter periods of sick-leave than the other categories both years. The goals of the legislative change were thus not met. The result of the study indicates that other factors than the legislation may be more important for physicians' practice. ⌐ 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Arvidsson, Eva, 1959-, et al.
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Så resonerar läkare och sjuksköterskor vid prioriteringar av patienter i primärvård
- 2007
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studier av prioriteringar i primärvården är särskilt intressanta eftersom det är där de allra flesta av oss kommer i kontakt med hälso- och sjukvården. Det är också i primärvården prioriteringar och olika former av ransonering på grund av begränsade resurser är vanliga. De allra flesta av oss förstår och accepterar att vi inte omedelbart kan få träffa en läkare om det inte rör sig om akuta och allvarliga sjukdomstillstånd. Vi finner många gånger ett råd om egenvård som en tillfredställande lösning för tillfället. Hur olika prioriteringar görs ”bakom kulisserna” är dock många gånger oklart för oss. Vi kan ibland t.ex. undra varför vi får betala för vissa vårdtjänster medan andra är gratis. Osäkerhet om på vilka grunder prioriteringar sker gäller inte bara för patienter utan även sjukvårdspersonal. Erfarenheter från flera olika håll i Sverige pekar på att de etiska riktlinjer som utgör kärnan i riksdagens prioriteringsprinciper är svåra att använda i praktiken. Det är därför angeläget att få mer kunskap om hur prioriteringsprinciper och begrepp uppfattas av sjukvårdspersonalen för att utveckla arbetsformer som är begripliga och förenliga med rådande rutiner.Distriktsläkare, mottagningssköterskor och distriktssköterskor vid fyra vårdcentraler som tidigare deltagit i en prioriteringsstudie har inbjudits att diskutera prioriteringar utifrån ett antal frågeställningar. Resultaten från dessa diskussioner visar bland att olika begrepp tolkas på många olika sätt. En framgångsrik implementering av den etiska plattformen kräver antagligen betydligt mer av öppna diskussioner om prioriteringar och principer i det dagliga vårdarbetet.Två allmänläkare Eva Arvidsson från Kalmar och Malin André från Falun har bidragit med den största insatsen i projektet som för övrigt inbegriper Lars Borgquist från Avdelningen för allmänmedicin vid Linköpings universitet och Kjell Lindström från Primärvårdens utvecklingsenhet i Jönköping. Studien har finansierats av Forskningsrådet för sydöstra sjukvårdsregionen (FORSS).Jag vill på projektgruppens vägnar tacka alla medverkande från vårdcentralerna Lindsdal och Borgholm i Kalmar läns landsting, Öxnehaga i Jönköpings läns landsting och Ryds vårdcentral i Landstinget i Östergötland.Linköping 2007-07-24Per Carlsson
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- Borgquist, Lars, 1944-, et al.
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Tankar om medicinsk kunskapsutveckling, prioriteringar och svensk primärvårdsorganisation
- 2016
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Ingår i: Perspektiv på utvärdering, prioritering, implementering och hälsoekonomi. - Linköping : Linköpings universitet. - 9789176857441 ; , s. 7-17
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den medicinska kunskapsutvecklingen har genomgått stora förändringar under de senaste femtio åren. Den ökade kunskapen har påverkat arbetsfördelningen mellan sjukhusvård och primärvård. Dessutom har flera vårdorganisatoriska reformer ägt rum under denna tid. Exempelvis övertogs ansvaret för allmänläkarverksamheten av landstingen från staten 1963. År 1970 hade Sverige högst andel av antalet slutenvårdsplatser i Europa. Samma år ändrades ersättningssystemet för läkare till en fast lön. Fyrtio år senare var andelen slutenvårdsplatser lägst i Europa. Under denna tidsperiod ökade antalet vårdcentraler från ett tjugotal till cirka 1200. Omfördelningen från sjukhusvård till primärvård och öppna vårdformer har liksom den medicinska kunskapsutvecklingen haft konsekvenser för relationerna mellan sjukhus och primärvård. Primärvård har traditionellt definierats med ett organisatoriskt perspektiv medan sjukhusspecialiteter i huvudsak har definierats från ett medicinskt kunskapsområde (1). Men både primärvård och sjukhusspecialiteter har ansvar för medicinska problem på låg och hög kunskapsnivå.
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- Engström, Sven, et al.
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Hög personlig läkarkontinuitet i primärvård förenad med färre besök på akutmottagning [Personal physician continuity in primary care associated with fewer emergency room visits]
- 2019
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Ingår i: Läkartidningen. - Stockholm, Sweden : Sveriges Läkarförbund. - 0023-7205 .- 1652-7518. ; 116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Overloading of the emergency departments in hospitals is, in Sweden, a common problem that is often blamed on lack of access to primary care. We have conducted a cross-sectional study comprising more than 40% of the 347 837 inhabitants of Region Jönköping with access to complete individual data on healthcare consumption, personal doctor continuity, socio-economics, and accessibility data for all of the regions health centres. Individuals with high personal continuity at their own health centre had significantly fewer emergency room visits compared to those with the lowest continuity: for younger adults 55% and for elderly 34% fewer emergency room visits. Access to doctor consultations or to counselling nurses in primary care was not associated with a lower number of emergency room visits. Our results show the importance of personal doctor continuity also for the group of younger adults.
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- Grahn, B, et al.
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Är rehabilitering kostnadseffektiv?
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Ingår i: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 5, s. 445-453
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- Grodzinsky, Ewa, 1958-, et al.
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Point-of-care testing has a limited effect on time to clinical decision in primary health care
- 2004
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0036-5513 .- 1502-7686. ; 64:6, s. 547-551
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- Objective: To investigate the clinical logistics of laboratory routines at primary health care centres (PHCs). Design and methods: Prospective registration was carried out for each PHC using questionnaires during 2-week intervals between the end of November 2001 and mid-January 2002. The study included 9 PHCs in the county of Östergötland and 4 in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, with different numbers of blood tests analysed using point-of-care testing (POCT). Data for B-glucose, HbA1c, C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), T4, cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides were collected. Main outcome measures were median time from sampling to available test result (TATa) and median time from sampling to clinical decision (TATd), and the proportion of patients informed of the outcome of the blood test in question during the sampling occasion. Results: A total of 3542 samples were collected. The median TATa showed that B-glucose, ESR and CRP were immediately analysed at all 13 PHCs. For the other tests, TATa varied from immediately to about two days. The median TATd varied from immediately to about a week. When POCT was used, 30% of the patients were informed about the outcome of the test during the sampling occasion. Conclusion: POCT has a limited effect on the clinical logistics in PHCs.
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- Hedin, H, et al.
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A cost analysis of three methods of treating femoral shaft fractures in children : A comparison of traction in hospital, traction in hospital/home and external fixation
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Ingår i: Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica. - : Medical Journals Sweden AB. - 0001-6470. ; 75:3, s. 241-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: There is no consensus as to which is best treatment of femoral fractures in children. Patients and methods: We performed a cost analysis comparing three treatments of femoral shaft fractures in children aged 3-15 years at 3 hospitals during the same period (1993-2000). The analysis included total medical costs and costs for the care provider and were calculated from the time of injury up to 1 year. Results: At hospital 1, treatment consisted of external fixation and early mobilization. At hospital 2, the treatment was skin or skeletal traction in hospital for 1-2 weeks, followed by home traction. At hospital 3, treatment was skin or skeletal traction in hospital until the fracture healed. Results: The average total costs per patient were EUR 10,000 at hospital 1, EUR 23,000 at hospital 2, and EUR 38,000 at hospital 3. Interpretation: The main factor for determining the cost of treatment was the number of days in hospital, which was lower in children treated with external fixation.
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- Holtedahl, K., et al.
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Abdominal symptoms in general practice: Frequency, cancer suspicions raised, and actions taken by GPs in six European countries. Cohort study with prospective registration of cancer
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Ingår i: Heliyon. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8440. ; 3:6
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- Background Abdominal symptoms are diagnostically challenging to general practitioners (GPs): although common, they may indicate cancer. In a prospective cohort of patients, we examined abdominal symptom frequency, initial diagnostic suspicion, and actions of GPs in response to abdominal symptoms. Methods Over a 10-day period, 493 GPs in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Scotland, recorded consecutive consultations: sex, date of birth and any specified abdominal symptoms. For patients with abdominal symptoms, additional data on non-specific symptoms, GPs’ diagnostic suspicion, and features of the consultation were noted. Data on all cancer diagnoses among all included patients were requested from the GPs eight months later. Findings Consultations with 61802 patients were recorded. Abdominal symptoms were recorded in 6264 (10.1%) patients. A subsequent malignancy was reported in 511 patients (0.8%): 441 (86.3%) had a new cancer, 70 (13.7%) a recurrent cancer. Abdominal symptoms were noted in 129 (25.2%) of cancer patients (P < 0.001), rising to 34.5% for the 89 patients with cancer located in the abdominal region. PPV for any cancer given any abdominal symptom was 2.1%. In symptomatic patients diagnosed with cancer, GPs noted a suspicion of cancer for 85 (65.9%) versus 1895 (30.9%) when there was no subsequent cancer (P < 0.001). No suspicion was noted in 32 (24.8%) cancer patients. The GP's intuitive cancer suspicion was independently associated with a subsequent new cancer diagnosis (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.15–3.89). Laboratory tests were ordered for 45.4% of symptomatic patients, imaging for 10.4%, referral or hospitalization for 20.0%: all were more frequent in subsequent cancer patients (P < 0.001). Interpretation Abdominal symptoms pointed to abdominal cancers rather than to other cancers. However, the finding of abdominal symptoms in only one third of patients with an abdominal cancer, and the lack of cancer suspicion in a quarter of symptomatic cancer patients, provide challenges for GPs’ diagnostic thinking and referral practices. © 2017 The Authors
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- Jacobsson, Fredric, 1960-, et al.
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Caring externalities in health economic evaluation : How are they related to severity of illness?
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Ingår i: Health Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-8510 .- 1872-6054. ; 73:2, s. 172-182
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- In health economic evaluations, altruistic preferences in the form of caring externalities, i.e. that people care about others' health, is usually not taken into account. In this study we examined how people value their own and others' health. This pilot study was carried out by letting people answer willingness to pay (WTP) questionnaires where internal WTP (own health) and altruistic WTP (others' health) were isolated and examined. A common method used in health economic evaluations is cost-utility analysis, which is based on the maximisation of QALYs. QALY maximisation may be appropriate if altruistic preferences are non-existent or if they are linear in relation to internal preferences (QALYs gained). We found evidence for the existence of altruistic preferences and that these preferences were relatively higher for severe health states (and lower for mild states of health) compared to internal preferences, i.e. when severity of illness increased, the relative increase in caring was higher concerning others than oneself. The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.001). Our results indicate that more attention and resources should be directed to severe health states, as compared to mild health states, than advocated by internal preferences in order to obtain more efficient resource allocation in the health care sector. © 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Jacobsson, Fredric, 1960-, et al.
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Is Altruism Paternalistic?
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Ingår i: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 117, s. 761-781
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We test if altruism is paternalistic with respect to health. Subjects can donate money or nicotine patches to a smoking diabetes patient whose willingness to pay for nicotine patches is positive but below the market price. In a between-subjects treatment, average donations are 40% greater in the nicotine patches group. When subjects can donate both nicotine patches and money more than 90% of the donations are given in kind rather than cash. These results are also confirmed in three additional stability experiments that vary the framing, use food stamps instead of money, and use exercise instead of nicotine patches.
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The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice
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Ingår i: Family Practice. - 0263-2136 .- 1460-2229. ; 19:6, s. 638-640
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- Objective. To analyse the variation between primary care centres (PCCs) with regard to prescribing antibiotics and to investigate whether the variation can be explained by factors related to patient satisfaction and to socio-demographic characteristics of the populations in the catchment areas of the PCCs. Methods. The frequency of prescription of antibiotics by GPs at the PCCs was used as the dependent variable in a multivariate regression analysis. Questionnaire data for patient satisfaction and register data for socio-demographic characteristics were used as explanatory variables. The study was set in a county in south-east Sweden, and 6734 patients consulting GPs at 39 out of the 41 PCCs in the county participated. Variables correlating with the frequency of antibiotics prescription at PCC level and with patient satisfaction were the main outcome measures. Results. A seven-fold variation in the extent of the prescription of antibiotics between the PCCs was observed. In the multivariate analysis, a high antibiotic prescription rate relates to high overall patient satisfaction with GP consultation as well as to the share of males in the listed population but to low satisfaction with the time spent by the GP on listening to the patient. Conclusion. A high frequency of prescription of antibiotics at a PCC may reflect a general disposition among GPs to give priority to maintaining good relations with the patients. However, a low level of prescription may be consistent with patient satisfaction if more time is spent on listening to and informing the patients. Thus more time spent on listening to the patients may reduce the prescription of antibiotics without reducing patient satisfaction.
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- Mårtensson, Jan, et al.
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Erfarenhet, kunskap och inställning till prioriteringar : En intervjustudie med personal i primärvården
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den svenska primärvården med vårdcentraler har utvecklats under en 40-årsperiod. Utvecklingen har delvis varit en anpassning till den alltjämt dominerande specialistvården med anknytning till sjukhusen. I takt med den medicinteknologiska utvecklingen har det också skett en överföring av flera patientgrupper i öppna vårdformer och många av de stora folksjukdomarna utreds och behandlas numera i primärvården. Resurstillskottet till svensk primärvård har i relativa tal varit mindre än det till sjukhusvård under den 40-åriga perioden och det har skapat prioriteringsproblem.Frågor om hur prioriteringar går till och bör gå till blir alltmer aktuella i primärvården i takt med att man upplever att resurserna inte räcker till. Studier och diskussioner om prioriteringar saknas till stor del och det har inte funnits någon vana att hantera prioriteringssituationer inom primärvården. Inte heller har det funnits stöd eller verktyg för att underlätta prioriteringsarbetet för de som arbetar i primärvården.Detta projekt om prioriteringar i primärvård vill belysa hur primärvårdspersonal tänker och agerar i prioriteringsfrågor och hur prioriteringsarbetet sker i praktiken vid ett slumpmässigt urval av landets vårdcentraler. Vi anser därför att resultaten är representativa för svensk primärvård.Projektet utgår från Institutionen för hälsa och samhälle vid Linköpings universitet (Per Carlsson, Eva Arvidsson och Lars Borgquist) i samarbete med Primärvårdens FoU-enhet i Jönköpings läns landsting (Kjell Lindström, Jan Mårtensson och Linda Frank). Arbetet har genomförts med ekonomiskt stöd från forskningsprogrammet Sjukvårdens förändringar, ett samarbete mellan Region Skåne, Västra Götalands Regionen, Landstinget Västmanland, Landstinget i Östergötland, Stockholms läns landsting, Socialstyrelsen och Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting.Tack till alla de personer som medverkat vid intervjuerna, övriga personer i projektet samt anslagsgivaren.
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