New reimbursement model in Icelandic primary care in 2017: first-year comparison of public and private primary care.

Objective: To analyze and compare the effect of a new reimbursement model (based on a modified version of the Swedish free choice reform) on private and public primary care in Iceland during its first year of use.

Design: Descriptive comparison based on official data from the Ministry of Welfare, Directorate of Health, and the Icelandic Health Insurance on payments in the Icelandic primary care system.

Setting: Primary care system operating in the Reykjavik capital area.

[Complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS].

Complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS, occurs with severe disabling pain, usually in the leg or hand, coupled with changes in pain perception, hyperesthesia and allodynia. There is as well, edema, changes in the color of the skin, trophic changes, and dystonia. The pain syndrome is often triggered by minor trauma.

[General practice in Iceland and Norway: GP's experience of different primary health care systems].

Introduction: Most GPs in Iceland are public employees on fixed salaries which is very different from their Norwegian colleagues. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of Icelandic GPs who have also worked as GPs in Norway and compare their experience of working in these two neighboring countries.

Material And Methods: Data were collected through interviews with 16 GPs that during the study period 2009-2010 were all working in Iceland.

Smoking during pregnancy: A population-based study.

Aims: Tobacco is a major cause of disease and mortality in modern times. The risk of smoking in pregnancy is a serious threat to the development and future health of an unborn child. The aim of this study was to explore the epidemiological factors associated with smoking during pregnancy in a primary healthcare setting.

A Few Observations on Health Service for Immigrants at a Primary Health Care Centre.

Objective. Icelandic society is rapidly changing, from being an ethnically homogeneous population towards a multicultural immigrant society. In the hope of optimizing the service for immigrants at the health care centre, we decided to evaluate health care utilization by immigrants.

Association of Morbus Ledderhose with Dupuytren's contracture.

Background: Fibromatous nodules in the sole of the foot are often called Ledderhose disease. It is a benign nodular formation in the plantar aponeurosis, typically at the distal medial border. A lump forms and it can be a few centimeters in diameter.

Increased total mortality and cancer mortality in men with Dupuytren's disease: a 15-year follow-up study.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mortality rate and causes of death of individuals with Dupuytren's disease. In 1981/82, as part of The Reykjavík Study, a general health survey, 1297 males were examined for clinical signs of Dupuytren's disease. Based on the clinical evaluation the participants were classified into three groups: (1) those with no signs of Dupuytren's disease were referred to as the reference cohort; (2) those with palpable nodules in the palmar fascia were classified as having stage 1; and (3) those who had contracted fingers or had been operated on due to contractures were classified as having stage 2 of Dupuytren's disease.