Research areas:

• Continuity of Care
• Chronic diseases 
• General Practice
• Primary Health Care
• Specialist Health Care
• Out-Of-Hours Service

Academic article

• Hetlevik, Øystein; Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Bondevik, Gunnar Tschudi et al. (2025). Patient preference for seeing own GP and patient-reported continuity of care - a survey in Norwegian general practice. (external link)
• Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Hetlevik, Øystein; Baste, Valborg et al. (2024). Continuity and breaches in GP care and their associations with mortality for patients with chronic disease: an observational study using Norwegian registry data. (external link)
• Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Hetlevik, Øystein; Baste, Valborg et al. (2023). Continuity of care and mortality for patients with chronic disease: an observational study using Norwegian registry data. (external link)
• Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Hetlevik, Øystein; Blinkenberg, Jesper et al. (2021). Continuity of care for patients with chronic disease: a registry-based observational study from Norway. (external link)
• Blinkenberg, Jesper; Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Hetlevik, Øystein et al. (2019). General practitioners’ and out-of-hours doctors’ role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Hetlevik, Øystein; Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Bondevik, Gunnar Tschudi et al. (2024). Continuity of care in general practice – the patient perspective. (external link)
• Hetlevik, Øystein; Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Bondevik, Gunnar Tschudi et al. (2024). Patients' experience with continuity of care in Norwegian general practice. (external link)

Errata

• Blinkenberg, Jesper; Pahlavanyali, Sahar; Hetlevik, Øystein et al. (2020). Erratum: Correction to: General practitioners' and out-of-hours doctors' role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study (BMC health services research (2019) 19 1 (568)). (external link)

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PhD project: Continuity of Care in Norwegian General Practice

This study is part of a bigger project called Utilization of helath care, refferals and admissions. National Center for Emergency Primary Health Care runs the main project. 

https://www.norceresearch.no/en/projects/utilization-of-health-care-services-in-norway

https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=528189