Abstract:Aim Over the last decades out-of-hour services in Norway have been centralised to cover lager geographical areas, resulting in longer response times for the on-call GP. Reports indicate an unintended increase in requests of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) as a result. We aimed to investigate alteration in the requests for HEMS and NACAscore of the patients transported. Method In 2009 nine municipalities in the county of Sogn og Fjordane relocated all local out-of-hour services into one large casua… Show more
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