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dc.contributor.advisorBekkelund, Svein Ivar
dc.contributor.advisorJohnsen, Stein Harald
dc.contributor.authorNissen, Ane Igland
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-18T08:36:35Z
dc.date.available2014-09-18T08:36:35Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-02
dc.description.abstractIn 2009 stroke care in the University Hospital of Northern Norway was reorganized. Until that year the hospital provided stroke care in two separate locations: patients 75 years and older were treated in the Geriatric Unit of the Medical Department while those younger were treated in the Neurological Department. Waiting times in the emergency unit were long, especially for the older patients. With the objective of reducing waiting times and offering equal service to all patients, reorganization by merging the two stroke units into one acute stroke unit was carried out. Lean methodology was applied in this process. This thesis presents and evaluates the effect of the reorganization. A medical record review of patients admitted before and after the reorganization was performed. The main findings were reductions in waiting time for CT scans and for first doctor’s visit for the geriatric patients. Furthermore, the proportion of patients receiving thrombolytic therapy increased. No major differences could be found concerning duration of hospitalization or discharge location. Thus, some of the objectives for the reorganization were achieved, while others were not.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/6701
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_6302
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDMED-3950en
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Nevrologi: 752en
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Clinical medical disciplines: 750::Neurology: 752en
dc.titleImproving health care for stroke patients. Reorganizing a stroke unit applying Lean methodology.en
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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