Malin Knutsen Glette

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Background The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on healthcare services globally. In care settings such as small rural nursing homes and homes care services leaders were forced to confront, and adapt to, both new and ongoing challenges to protect their employees and patients and maintain their organization's operation. The aim of this study was...

Objectives This study aimed to gain new insight and knowledge on out-of-hours emergency primary care nurses’ experience of presenteeism in their workplace and their outlook on the impact they recognised the phenomenon to have on patient safety when caring for acute patients. Design An explorative qualitative study. Setting The study was conducted...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to new and unfamiliar changes in healthcare services globally. Most COVID-19 patients were cared for in primary healthcare services, demanding major adjustments and adaptations in care delivery. Research addressing how rural primary healthcare services coped during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possible learnin...

Case study research is a widely-used approach in qualitative research. The advantages of case study research include its ability to investigate complex social phenomena and to handle dense data. However, it has several drawbacks, such as defining the case and ensuring rigour. The large variety in descriptions of case study implementation makes the...

En doktorgradsavhandling gjennomført ved Universitetet i Stavanger (Glette, 2020) viser at helsepersonell erfarer at reinnleggelser i sykehus påvirkes av flere ulike faktorer. Disse er ofte knyttet opp mot organisatoriske forhold, både i sykehuset og primærhelsetjenesten, for eksempel bemanning og kompetanse, tidlige utskrivelser, manglende kommuni...

Medication management and the transmission of medication information between healthcare services have proven to be essential factors in hospital readmissions. The patients primary healthcare services are caring for at present have complex medical conditions, leading to even greater challenges in transferring correct information across different hea...

Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of the role organizational factors have in how health personnel make efficiency-thoroughness trade-offs, and how these trade-offs potentially affect clinical quality dimensions. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a thematic synthesis of the literature concerning health pers...

Abstract Objectives To explore hospital physicians’ views on readmission and discharge processes in the interface between hospitals and municipalities. Design Qualitative case study. Setting The Norwegian healthcare system. Participants Fifteen hospital physicians (residents and consultants) from one hospital, involved in the treatment and discharg...

Background Thirty-day hospital readmissions represent an international challenge leading to increased prevalence of adverse events, reduced quality of care and pressure on healthcare service’s resources and finances. There is a need for a broader understanding of hospital readmissions, how they manifest, and how resources in the primary healthcare...

Background: Hospital readmissions is an increasingly serious international problem, associated with higher risks of adverse events, especially in elderly patients. There can be many causes and influential factors leading to hospital readmissions, but they are often closely related, making hospital readmissions an overall complex area. In addition,...

In the Norwegian healthcare system General practitioners function as gate keepers to the secondary healthcare services due to their responsibilities in initial emergency care for patients in nursing homes, casualty clinics and GP offices. Previous research show significant variations in hospital referral-rates be-tween GPs and that merely half of t...