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Guttorm Raknes er overlege ved RELIS Nord-Norge.
Articles by Guttorm Raknes
Local emergency medical communication centres – staffing and populations
- Guttorm Raknes,
- Tone Morken,
- Steinar Hunskår
28.11.2017:
LEMCs are a part of the national emergency notification service designed to receive telephone calls and handle requests to the out-of-hours emergency primary health care service (OOH service, legevakt) for emergency assistance (1). Collaboration between the LEMC and the OOH doctor is crucial, and in...
Travel distance and the utilisation of out-of-hours services
- Guttorm Raknes,
- Tone Morken,
- Steinar Hunskår
25.11.2014:
A number of studies have shown that increasing travel distances lead to less use of various health services. Geography may play as large a role as demographic and socioeconomic factors. Examples include the rate of participation in mammography programmes (1), follow-up of patients with dementia (2)...
Travel time and distances to Norwegian out-of-hours casualty clinics
- Guttorm Raknes,
- Tone Morken,
- Steinar Hunskår
25.11.2014:
Out-of-hours (OOH) emergency health services in Norway are changing. A growing number of municipalities find it difficult to maintain local out-of-hours services and therefore seek to establish inter-municipal collaboration. The on-call burden on GPs will be lessened, which may render positions in...