• Exploring patient safety in rural general practice - a mixed-methods approach 

      Harbitz, Martin Bruusgaard (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2022-11-08)
      <p>Unsafe medical practices and incidents where safety hazards cause harm to patients occur daily in general practice. The costs to society, health care personnel and individual patients are substantial and deserve attention. “Hazards” can be regarded as local error-producing factors, latent failures, which create conditions for unsafe medical practice to take place. “Harm” occurs when these conditions ...
    • Medical malpractice in Norway: frequency and distribution of disciplinary actions for medical doctors 2011–2018 

      Harbitz, Martin Bruusgaard; Stensland, Per Steinar; Abelsen, Birgit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-09)
      <p>Background: Physicians who perform unsafe practices and harm patients may be disciplined. In Norway, there are five types of disciplinary action, ranging from a warning for the least serious examples of malpractice to loss of licence for the most serious ones. Disciplinary actions always involve medical malpractice. The aims of this study were to investigate the frequency and distribution of ...
    • Rural general practice patients’ coping with hazards and harm: an interview study 

      Harbitz, Martin Bruusgaard; Brandstorp, Helen; Gaski, Margrete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-18)
      <i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study is to identify and analyse rural general practice patients’ experiences of hazards and harm that comprise adverse events, and their strategies for coping with them.<p> <p><i>Design</i>: Interview study using systematic text condensation and coping strategy theory in an abductive analysis process.<p> <p><i>Setting</i>: Nine rural general practice clinics ...
    • Rural general practice staff experiences of patient safety incidents and low quality of care in Norway: an interview study 

      Harbitz, Martin Bruusgaard; Stensland, Per Steinar; Gaski, Margrete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-28)
      Background and objectives: General practitioners (GPs), nurses and medical secretaries (practice staff) are responsible for the continuous provision of safe care in rural general practice. Little is known about their role in situations where patients were or could have been harmed in a rural setting. Therefore, we sought to investigate rural general practice staff experiences of patient safety ...