Geir Wenberg Jacobsen

05.07.2016: Fewer people than before take part in health surveys. Many researchers seem to experience that potential participants must be offered more than an appeal to solidarity and their sense of responsibility. Voluntary communal work is a well-known phenomenon: a joint effort in which the individual...

15.03.2016: This issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association includes an article on the follow-up of patients with diabetes. It is a result of a new collaborative model, and is published in tandem with a more comprehensive report Drawing conclusions on the basis of one single study is always...

05.05.2015: Despite the fact that the Health Research Act of 2008 appears to function quite well, some researchers still complain about complicated and lengthy procedures. Have the lawyers been given too much say? The introduction of the Health Research Act (1) in 2009 severed a number of Gordian knots. One...

28.01.2014: Over many years, a group of general practitioners in Arendal have made contributions to practice-related clinical research. Should more doctors follow their example? In March 2013, the participants in the introductory course «Research in general practice» in Oppdal were asked whether they had...