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Articles by Sven Erik Gisvold
Culture for better patient safety
- Christina Drewes,
- Sigurd Fasting,
- Sven Erik Gisvold
09.11.2021:
Most hospital departments have developed good routines for the reporting and discussion of serious incidents. There is often less discussion of more everyday incidents without consequences for patients. In the department of anaesthesiology at St. Olavs hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, a...
We have no available beds
- Sven Erik Gisvold
24.03.2020:
Where should the coronavirus patients go? 'All hospital beds in Norway are full.' This was announced by divisional director, Norwegian Director of Health, Svein Lie on March 6 (1) – before any coronavirus patients had been admitted to hospital in Norway. The tragic fact is that he is right. There is...
Reclaim the profession!
- Vegard Bruun Wyller,
- Sven Erik Gisvold,
- Egil Hagen,
- Rune Heggedal,
- Arnulf Heimdal,
- Kjetil Karlsen,
- Jannicke Mellin-Olsen,
- Jan Størmer,
- Ivar Thomsen,
- Torgeir Bruun Wyller
19.03.2013:
Norway has the preconditions for world-class health services. They should enjoy the confidence of all social strata, be organised by the state and provide maximum benefit in exchange for the resources that the community invests in them. Everybody agrees to these general goals. The disagreement...