Steinar Hunskår

Steinar Hunskår

Research Professor
Email: sthu@norceresearch.no
Office Address: Kalfarveien 31, 5018 Bergen, Norway

Projects

Project

Covid-19 utbrudd i Norge – Epidemiologi, bruk av helsetjenester og håndtering i primærhelsetjenesten - CONOPRI

Project

Forbruk av helsetjenester, henvisninger og innleggelser

Project

Legevaktens historie

Publications

Contact characteristics and factors associated with the degree of urgency among older people in emergency primary health care: a cross-sectional study.
BMC Health Services Research 2020
General practitioners' provision of end-of-life care and associations with dying at home: a registry-based longitudinal study
Family Practice 2020
Impact on core values of family medicine from a 2-year Master’s programme in Gezira, Sudan: observational study
BMC Family Practice 2019
Point-of-care ultrasound in primary care: a systematic review of generalist performed point-of-care ultrasound in unselected populations
Ultrasound Journal 2019
Fractures diagnosed in primary care – a five-year retrospective observational study from a Norwegian rural municipality with a ski resort
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2019
Associations between home deaths and end-of-life nursing care trajectories for community-dwelling people: a population-based registry study
BMC Health Services Research 2019
General practitioners’ and out-of-hours doctors’ role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study
BMC Health Services Research 2019
Workload in Norwegian general practice 2018 - An observational study
BMC Health Services Research 2019
Loss of life years due to unavailable helicopter emergency medical service: a single base study from a rural area of Norway
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2019
Long-term risks of stress and urgency urinary incontinence after different vaginal delivery modes
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2018
Treatment, transport, and primary care involvement when helicopter emergency medical services are inaccessible: a retrospective study
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2018
Frequent attenders at primary care out-of-hours services: a registry-based observational study in Norway
BMC Health Services Research 2018
Stroke identification by criteria based dispatch - a register based study
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 2018
Comparing unplanned and potentially planned home deaths: a population-based cross-sectional study
BMC Palliative Care 2018
Local emergency medical communication centres – staffing and populations
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2017
Telephone counselling by nurses in Norwegian primary care out-of-hours services: a cross-sectional study
BMC Family Practice 2017
Reasons for encounter by different levels of urgency in out-of-hours emergency primary health care in Norway: a cross sectional study
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017
Factors predicting antibiotic prescription and referral to hospital for children with respiratory symptoms: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled study at out-of-hours services in primary care
BMJ Open 2017
Point-of-care ultrasonography in Norwegian out-of-hours primary health care
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2017
Patient trajectories in a Norwegian unit of municipal emergency beds
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2017
Anxiety and depression associated with urinary incontinence. A 10-year follow-up study from the Norwegian HUNT study (EPINCONT)
Neurourology and Urodynamics 2017
Dispatch guideline adherence and response interval-a study of emergency medical calls in Norway
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016
Cancer patients’ use of primary care out-of-hours services: a cross-sectional study in Norway
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2016
Out-of-hours antibiotic prescription after screening with C reactive protein: A randomised controlled study
BMJ Open 2016
Potential cardiac arrest – An observational study of pre-hospital medical response
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2016
Factors associated with disallowance of compulsory mental healthcare referrals
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2016
Point-of-care testing with CRP in primary care: a registry-based observational study from Norway
BMC Family Practice 2015
Risk of hip fracture among older people using antihypertensive drugs: a nationwide cohort study
BMC Geriatrics 2015
Primary care utilization among patients with influenza during the 2009 pandemic. Does risk for severe influenza disease or prior contact with the general practitioner have any influence?
Family Practice 2015
Chest pain out-of-hours - An interview study of primary care physicians' diagnostic approach, tolerance of risk and attitudes to hospital admission
BMC Family Practice 2014
Scaling up family medicine training in Gezira, Sudan - a 2-year in-service master programme using modern information and communication technology: A survey study
Human Resources for Health 2014
Management of chest pain: A prospective study from Norwegian out-of-hours primary care
BMC Family Practice 2014
Method paper - Distance and travel time to casualty clinics in Norway based on crowdsourced postcode coordinates: A comparison with other methods
PLOS ONE 2014
Risk of hip fracture among older people using anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs: a nationwide prospective cohort study
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2014
Variations in contact patterns and dispatch guideline adherence between Norwegian emergency medical communication centres - a cross-sectional study
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2014
Use and discontinued use of menopausal hormone therapy by healthy women in Norway: The Hordaland women's cohort study
Menopause 2014
Changes of triage by GPs during the course of prehospital emergency situations in a Norwegian rural community
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2013