The economic impact of multiple sclerosis to the patients and their families in Norway.

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) imposes high economic costs on society, but the patients and their families have to bear some of these costs.

Objective: We aimed to estimate the magnitude of these economic costs in Norway.

Method: We collected data through a postal questionnaire survey targeting 922 MS patients in Hordaland County, western Norway, in 2013-2014; 546 agreed to participate and were included.

[A user evaluation of software programs in family practice].

Software for electronic patient journals was evaluated. A questionnaire was sent to a total of 551 general practitioners working on contract, salaried general practitioners and specialist practitioners. Among the 345 respondents, 63% used electronic journals.