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Reasons for acute referrals to hospital from general practitioners and out-of-hours doctors in Norway: a registry-based observational study

Published Online: 2022-01-15

Published Print: 2022-12

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Blinkenberg, Jesper

Hetlevik, Øystein

Sandvik, Hogne

Baste, Valborg

Hunskaar, Steinar
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Article History

Received: 10 August 2021

Accepted: 21 December 2021

First Online: 15 January 2022

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: The Regional Ethical Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, Region West approved the project (30.01.2014) (reference number 2013/2344/REK vest). The Regional Ethical Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics, Region West also waived the requirement of the informed consent for the study. Norwegian Data Protection Authority approved the use of the data for research purposes in this project (15.09.2014) (reference number 14/0322–9/CGN). The register owners, Statistics Norway and the Norwegian Directorate of Health, approved linkage of registries. The data were pseudo anonymized by third party (Statistics Norway) and analysed at group level to minimize the risk for backwards identification of individuals. All analyses were carried out, and methods were used, in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (declaration of Helsinki).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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