Primary care doctors in acute call-outs to severe trauma incidents in Norway - variations by rural-urban settings and time factors.

Background: A severely injured patient needs fast transportation to a hospital that can provide definitive care. In Norway, approximately 20% of the population live in rural areas. Primary care doctors (PCDs) play an important role in prehospital trauma care.

To be or not to be supervisors for medical students in general practice clinical placements: a questionnaire study from Norway.

Objective: Many countries experience challenges in recruiting and retaining general practitioners (GPs) as supervisors for medical students in clinical placements. We aimed to investigate the opportunities, capacities and limitations of Norwegian GPs to become supervisors.

Design: Web-based cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Primary care doctors in acute call-outs to severe trauma incidents in Norway - associations with factors related to patients and doctors.

Objective: Severe trauma patients need immediate prehospital intervention and transfer to a specialised trauma hospital. In Norway, primary care doctors (PCDs) are an integrated part of the prehospital trauma care. The aim of this study was to investigate the degree to which PCDs were involved in prehospital care of severe trauma patients and how factors related to patients and doctors were associated with call-outs to these incidents.

Physician factors associated with medical errors in Norwegian primary care emergency services.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the associations between characteristics of physicians working in primary care emergency units (PCEUs) and the outcome of assessments of the medical records.

Design: Data from a previous case-control study was used to evaluate factors related to medical errors.

Setting: Ten Norwegian PCEUs were included.

Variation in Perception of Safety Culture in Out-of-hours Family Medicine Service in Croatia.

Introduction: The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is among the most frequently cited tools for measuring safety culture in healthcare settings. Its ambulatory version was used in this study. The aim was to assess safety culture in out-of-hours (OOH) family medicine service and its variation across job positions, regions, and respondents' demographic characteristic.