Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway
Purpose: The article discusses how municipally employed physiotherapists and private practicing physiotherapists in Finnmark’s municipalities describe and reason about prioritization and allocation of tasks. The objective of the study was to gain more knowledge about content and tradeoffs in physiot...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c71ff5ab3ead4914bc7f5790fb798f24 2023-05-15T16:13:42+02:00 Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway Morten Nikolaisen Cathrine Arntzen Siri Moe 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/c71ff5ab3ead4914bc7f5790fb798f24 DA EN NB NN SV dan eng nob nno swe Norwegian Physiotherapist Association https://fysioterapeuten.no/Fag-og-vitenskap/Fagartikler/Physiotherapists-and-Priority-Setting-A-Focus-Group-Study-in-Municipalities-in-Finnmark-Norway https://doaj.org/toc/0016-3384 https://doaj.org/toc/0807-9277 0016-3384 0807-9277 https://doaj.org/article/c71ff5ab3ead4914bc7f5790fb798f24 Fysioterapeuten, Vol 82, Iss 1, Pp 18-23 (2015) physiotherapy primary health care rural health services health priorities Medicine (General) R5-920 article 2015 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T05:33:15Z Purpose: The article discusses how municipally employed physiotherapists and private practicing physiotherapists in Finnmark’s municipalities describe and reason about prioritization and allocation of tasks. The objective of the study was to gain more knowledge about content and tradeoffs in physiotherapy services and see if professional practice and development are in line with current health policies. Method: The study is based on five focus group interviews with physiotherapists (n=21). Findings: The participants perceived municipal resources for physiotherapy as insufficient, and expressed that they had to perform demanding prioritizations with limited support from the local authorities. Due to long distances to travel, patients who needed home consultations were in danger of not getting physiotherapy. Traditional differences between private practitioners and municipally employed physiotherapists characterized prioritization and distribution of patient groups and tasks. In municipalities with fewer physiotherapists and a wider range of tasks, the differences were less apparent. Municipally employed physiotherapists were given new tasks without an increase in capacity in the physiotherapy services, and distributed their resources on more patients than professionally desirable. Conclusion: Limited service capacity, variations in affiliation (private practicing or municipally employed) and prioritizations, plus long distances, causes differences in provided physiotherapy services depending on place of residence. This emphasizes the importance of municipalities attending to their overall responsibility for physiotherapy services. Article in Journal/Newspaper Finnmark Finnmark Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway |
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Purpose: The article discusses how municipally employed physiotherapists and private practicing physiotherapists in Finnmark’s municipalities describe and reason about prioritization and allocation of tasks. The objective of the study was to gain more knowledge about content and tradeoffs in physiotherapy services and see if professional practice and development are in line with current health policies. Method: The study is based on five focus group interviews with physiotherapists (n=21). Findings: The participants perceived municipal resources for physiotherapy as insufficient, and expressed that they had to perform demanding prioritizations with limited support from the local authorities. Due to long distances to travel, patients who needed home consultations were in danger of not getting physiotherapy. Traditional differences between private practitioners and municipally employed physiotherapists characterized prioritization and distribution of patient groups and tasks. In municipalities with fewer physiotherapists and a wider range of tasks, the differences were less apparent. Municipally employed physiotherapists were given new tasks without an increase in capacity in the physiotherapy services, and distributed their resources on more patients than professionally desirable. Conclusion: Limited service capacity, variations in affiliation (private practicing or municipally employed) and prioritizations, plus long distances, causes differences in provided physiotherapy services depending on place of residence. This emphasizes the importance of municipalities attending to their overall responsibility for physiotherapy services. |
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Morten Nikolaisen Cathrine Arntzen Siri Moe |
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Morten Nikolaisen Cathrine Arntzen Siri Moe |
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Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway |
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Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway |
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Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway |
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Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway |
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Physiotherapists and Priority Setting: A Focus Group Study in Municipalities in Finnmark, Norway |
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physiotherapists and priority setting: a focus group study in municipalities in finnmark, norway |
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Norwegian Physiotherapist Association |
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2015 |
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Finnmark Finnmark |
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Fysioterapeuten, Vol 82, Iss 1, Pp 18-23 (2015) |
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https://fysioterapeuten.no/Fag-og-vitenskap/Fagartikler/Physiotherapists-and-Priority-Setting-A-Focus-Group-Study-in-Municipalities-in-Finnmark-Norway https://doaj.org/toc/0016-3384 https://doaj.org/toc/0807-9277 0016-3384 0807-9277 https://doaj.org/article/c71ff5ab3ead4914bc7f5790fb798f24 |
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