Medical overuse (overinvestigating, overdiagnosis and overtreatment), clinical communication, disease at the intersection of of biology, culture and (loss of) meaning, medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), depression care in general practice.

Communication and consultation skills, psychiatry in general practice, multimorbidity in general practice, medical overuse. 

Selected publications related to current research

Utvalgte publikasjoner relaterte til pågående forskningsprosjekter

Hjörleifsson S, Meland E. 4 Clinical skills for avoiding overdiagnosis. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2023;28:A2.

Hjörleifsson S, Getz LO, The sustainability of universal health care, Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2023 doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0025.

Jossang IH, Aamland Aa & Hjörleifsson S. Discovering strengths in patients with medically unexplained symptoms – a focus group study with general practitioners, Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 40:3, 405-413, DOI: 10.1080/02813432.2022.2139345.

Breivold J, Rø KI & Hjörleifsson S. Conditions for gatekeeping when GPs consider patient requests unreasonable: a focus group study, Family Practice 2021, DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmab072

Ruths, S, Haukenes, I, Hetlevik, Ø, Smith-Sivertsen T, Hjörleifsson S, Hansen AB, Riiser S, Meling HM, Baste V, Trends in treatment for patients with depression in general practice in Norway, 2009–2015: nationwide registry-based cohort study (The Norwegian GP-DEP Study). BMC Health Serv Res 21, 697 (2021). DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021- 06712-w.

Lea K, Swinglehurst D & Hjörleifsson S, Digital Consumer Health: Negotiating Multiple Voices in the Clinical Consultation, Professions and Professionalism 2021, 11(2), DOI: 10.7577.

Whelan B, Hjörleifsson S. & Schei E. Shame in medical clerkship: “You just feel like dirt under someone’s shoe”. Perspect Med Educ, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s40037-021-00665-w

Hetlevik Ø, Garre-Fivelsdal G, Bjorvatn B, Hjörleifsson S & Ruths S, Patient-reported depression treatment and future treatment preferences: an observational study in general practice, Family Practice, 2019, 1–7, doi:10.1093/fampra/cmz026

Swinglehurst, D, Hjörleifsson S. The Everyday Ethics of Burdensome Polypharmacy, Public Policy & Aging Report, 2018, Vol. 28, No. 4, 113–115