Helge Garåsen The Trondheim Model - NSDM
Helge Garåsen The Trondheim Model - NSDM
Helge Garåsen The Trondheim Model - NSDM
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Acknowledgments<br />
<strong>The</strong>se studies were given financial support, in the form of grants, from <strong>The</strong> Norwegian<br />
Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and from Central Norway Regional<br />
Health Authority.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Municipality of <strong>Trondheim</strong> and St. Olavs University Hospital supported the study at<br />
Søbstad Teaching Nursing Home by allocating resources to the Intermediate ward in the<br />
Nursing Home.<br />
I believe that the close cooperation between the primary care service in the Municipality of<br />
<strong>Trondheim</strong> and the specialist care at St. Olavs University Hospital is the most important<br />
factor for the success of the intermediate department and to the possible success of my work.<br />
Roar Johnsen is the principle tutor for the work presented in this thesis, and he is also<br />
responsible for introducing me to the field of academic evaluation of health services. Roar<br />
has given me optimal personal and scientific support from well before the start and until the<br />
completion of this thesis.<br />
A special thank you to Tor Åm, Chief Executive Officer in the Municipality of <strong>Trondheim</strong>,<br />
who introduced me to public health in a larger Norwegian society, and has given me<br />
generous opportunities to do research and to develop my own ideas within the health care<br />
services in the municipality of <strong>Trondheim</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most critical part of the trial at Søbstad Teaching Nursing Home was to recruit patients<br />
and collect exact information from and about the participants of the study. I want to express<br />
my gratitude for the excellent and accurate work done by all the staff at Søbstad.<br />
I also want to express my gratitude to Lisbeth Kystad and Jorunn Mediås who managed to<br />
establish the intermediate department, put in place all the necessary procedures, do all the<br />
training programmes and to inspire, with the manager of Søbstad Birgit Reisch, all the<br />
employees in an incredibly short period of three months in the autumn of 2002.<br />
This thesis has been made more readable due to the efforts of Linda J. Allan Blekkan who has<br />
tried to lead me through the subtleties of the English language.<br />
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