Tidsskrift for den Norske lægeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny række
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · Jun 2007
Review[Patient autonomy and informed consent in clinical practice].
Patient autonomy and informed consent is increasingly emphasized in clinical practice, professional ethics and health care legislation. ⋯ The increased emphasis on patient autonomy and informed consent places high demands on health care personnel's moral considerations, ability to communicate, and understanding of roles and responsibilities. Assessment of competence to consent will probably become an important challenge to Norwegian health care personnel in the near future.
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Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen. · May 2007
[Locations, facilities and routines in Norwegian out-of-hours emergency primary health care services].
Limited data are available on casualty clinic facilities and localisation, inter-municipal co-operation and routines for out-of-hours services in the 433 Norwegian municipalities. The National centre for emergency primary health care collected data on these issues from October 2005 until February 2006. ⋯ Inter-municipal co-operations are most common in areas with a high population density, i.e. in southern and eastern parts of Norway. Varying routines in out-of-hours service districts indicate that several municipalities do not fulfil all the obligations in regulations from the Ministry of health and care services in Norway.