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An Overview of Healthcare in Norway
Author Bjørn Magne Eggen Director of the Clinic of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway Organisation of the Healthcare System More than 85% of all healthcare expenditures are publicly covered. The 431 municipalities/communes, with population size ranging from 250-500,000 inhabitants,...
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Professional Life in Norwegian Intensive Care:Physicians Working in Norwegian ICU Care
Author Pål Klepstad MD, PhD Medical Director, Department of Intensive Care St Olavs University Hospital Trondheim, Norway [email protected] A key issue in Norwegian ICU care is how to give adequate ICU treatment to all patients despite a scattered population and geographically and meteorologically...
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An Interview with Nils Smith-Erichsen
Dr. Nils Smith-Erichsen is a Consultant in the ICU at Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. He shares his views on Intensive Care in Norway. Please Tell Us About Your Experiences Working as an Intensivist in Norway. When I began as a full-time intensivist in 1979, only a few colleagues were in the same position in Norway....
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SCCM's 2008 Congress: It's Not Just a Meeting, It's an Experience
Authors Stephen A. Bernard, MD Director of Critical Care, Knox Private Hospital Wantirna, Victoria, Australia Louis Brusco, MD, FCC M Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, Hospital Center New York, New York, US Hiroyuki Hirasawa, MD Professor...
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The Epic II Study
Author Jean-Louis Vincent Department of Intensive Care Erasmus Hospital, Free University Brussels Brussels, Belgium On April 29, 1992, the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) study collected data from more than 10,000 intensive care unit (ICU) patients in 17 countries in Western Europe (Vincent...
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Risk Analysis: Techniques for Improving Patient Safety in Critical Care
Author Andrew Smith, FRCA, MRCP Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK Introduction The ‘patient safety’ movement has come about through an appreciation that the techniques and approaches that have been used to improve safety in other industries can be applied...
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An Interview with Dr. Claudio Ronco
Prof. Claudio Ronco shares his management experience and vision as Director of the Nephrology Department at St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. May I Ask You, by Way of Introduction to Our Readers, How Long You’ve Been the Director of Your Unit? I have been director of the Department of Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation...
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The Healthcare System in Poland
Author Jacek Lukomski Director of Regional Hospital, Poznan Vice President of Union of Polish Health Care Employers, Poland The reforms of the healthcare system in Poland were initiated in 1989 along with the reforms of the national economy. Their positive effects were manifested mainly by shorter hospitalisations,...
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Intensive Care in Poland
Author Adam Mikstacki, MD, PhD ESICM Council Member, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Regional Hospital, Poznan, Poland The development of intensive care (IC) in Poland has been closely connected to the advances in anaesthesiology....
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Polish Working Group for Sepsis
Author Prof. Andrzej Kuebler Head of Working Group for Sepsis, Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Poland On November 19 th , 2001 the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy established a Working Group for Sepsis, motivated by the increasing worldwide interest in the syndrome...
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