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Health Atlas for the Elderly in Norway

By: SKDEPublished 15 June 2017

The fact sheets provide a brief description of the patient samples, as well as information about the population’s use of services in geographical areas (hospital referral areas). The use is measured as the number of events per 1,000 population or as the proportion of patients that receive a certain service. The fact sheets also include brief comments on the variation in use between geographical areas.

  • The general practitioner service
  • The somatic specialist health service
  • Demographic developments
  • Myocardial infarction and revascularisation
  • Heart failure
  • Examinations for heart disease
  • Pacemaker implantation
  • Pneumonia, emergency admissions
  • COPD, emergency admissions
  • Hip fractures, admissions
  • Primary joint replacements
  • Wrist and femoral neck fractures
  • Non-surgical cancer treatment
  • Treatment of diseases of the eye
  • Fitting of new hearing aids
  • Biological drugs
  • Strokes, emergency admissions
  • Dementia and Parkinson's disease

Read more: more results and analyzes can be found in the report.