• Is there a demand response by patients in primary care? 

      Holmås, Tor Helge; Kaarbøe, Oddvar M. (Working paper, Working paper, 2006-11)
      We test whether a demand response by patients exists in the Norwegian primary care sector. In Norway, physicians are remunerated either by salary or by incentive contract, and we have access to a large data survey that ...
    • Long term care and hospital length of stay for elderly patients 

      Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil; Kristiansen, Frode; Lurås, Hilde (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)
      The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing and old patients’ bed occupancy rate in hospitals increases as a fraction of total bed occupancy. Because old patients, on average, are frailer than other ...