Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Job description
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Fields of interest:
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Services Research (HRS), Registry data and health register databases, Clinical Nursing, Pathology, Medical calculation, Nursing Science
Orchid-id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-5492
Research projects: https://uit.no/project/sas - "Stormottakere av spesialisthelsetjenester"
Affiliated research group Center for Care Research + CCR's group for register data analyzes
Link to research group: https://uit.no/research/sofnord - Center for Care Research
Link to Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Morten-Lonhaug-Naess
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Publications outside Cristin
Conference lecture 2023
Exploring general practitioner contacts among high-cost older patients in Norwegian somatic hospitals - foreløpige resultater fra en registerdatastudie
Morten Lønhaug-Næss, Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen, Jill-Marit Moholt
Conference lecture 2021
Stormottakere av spesialisthelsetjeneser - hvilke kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester mottar de?
Jill-Marit Moholt ,Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2023
Stormottakere av spesialisthelsetjenester: Resultater fra en publikasjon og videre arbeid mot å forstå hvordan stormottakere bruker kommunale helsetjenester
Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2022
Hva kjennetegner eldre stormottakere av somatiske sykehustjenester? Resultater fra en registerdatastudie og en kvalitativ intervjustudie
Jill-Marit Moholt, Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2023
Hvem er eldre stormottakere av somatiske sykehustjenester?
Jill-Marit Moholt, Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Research article 05.10.2023
Older high-cost patients in Norwegian somatic hospitals: A register-based study of patient characteristics
Morten Lønhaug-Næss, Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen, Bodil Hansen Blix, Trine Strand Bergmo, Matthias Hoben, Jill-Marit Moholt
Objective - Two-thirds of the economic resources in Norwegian hospitals are used on 10% of the patients. Most of these high-cost patients are older adults, which experience more unplanned hospital admissions, longer hospital stays and higher readmission rates than other patients. This study aims to examine the individual and clinical characteristics of older patients with unplanned admissions to Norwegian somatic hospitals and how these characteristics differ between high-cost and low-cost older patients. Design - Observational cross-sectional study. Setting - Norwegian somatic hospitals. Participants - National registry data of older Norwegian patients (≥65 years) with ≥1 unplanned contact with somatic hospitals in 2019 (n=2 11 738). Primary outcome measure - High-cost older patients were defined as those within the 10% of the highest diagnosis-related group weights in 2019 (n=21 179). We compared high-cost to low-cost older patients using bivariate analyses and logistic regression analysis. Results - Men were more likely to be high-cost older patients than women (OR=1.25, 95% CI 1.21 to 1.29) and the oldest (90+ years) compared with the youngest older adults (65–69 years) were less likely to cause high costs (OR=0.47, 95% CI 0.43 to 0.51). Those with the highest level of education were less likely to cause high costs than those with primary school degrees (OR=0.74, 95% CI 0.69 to 0.80). Main diagnosis group (OR=3.50, 95% CI 3.37 to 3.63) and dying (OR=4.13, 95% CI 3.96 to 4.30) were the clinical characteristics most strongly associated with the likelihood of being a high-cost older patient. Conclusion - Several of the observed patient characteristics in this study may warrant further investigation as they might contribute to high healthcare costs. For example, MDGs, reflecting comprehensive healthcare needs and lower education, which is associated with poorer health status, increase the likelihood of being high-cost older patients. Our results indicate that Norwegian hospitals function according to the intentions of those having the highest needs receiving most services.
Conference lecture 2021
Stormottakere av spesialisthelsetjenester - hvilke kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester mottar de?
Jill-Marit Moholt, Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2024
Older adults with high utilization of somatic hospital services – which municipal health and care services do they receive? (the SAS project)
Jill-Marit Moholt, Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2024
Use of general practitioner services among high-cost older patients in somatic hospitals – a Norwegian registry-based study.
Morten Lønhaug-Næss
Conference lecture 2022
Older high-utilization patients in Norwegian somatic hospitals - a national register-based study
Morten Lønhaug-Næss, Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen, Bodil Hansen Blix, Trine Strand Bergmo, Jill-Marit Moholt
Background: Previous studies have shown that a small proportion of patients use most of the resources in Norwegian somatic hospitals. These patients, who are described as ‘high-utilization patients’ (HUP), have more acute hospital admissions, longer hospital stays, and higher readmission rates than other patients. In addition, the majority are older adults and have chronic and long-term healthcare needs.
Research interests
Epidemiology
Health Services Research (HRS)
Analyzis of registry data and health registries
Research projects: https://uit.no/project/sas - High-Need High-Cost Patients with frequent unplanned hospital admissions
Research group affiliation: https://uit.no/research/sofnord
Teaching
- Health Services Research (HRS)
- Biostatistics and epidemiology
- Natural sciences
- Clinical nursing
Member of research group
CV
2021-04 - 2025-03: Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). Thesis working title: "Utilization of community healthcare services among older high-utilization patients with unplanned hospital admissions. A Norwegian register-based study. University of Tromsø/UiT - Norges arktiske universitet.
2015-08 - 2017-05: MSc PH, Epidemiology and biostatistics. Thesis working title: "Cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer risk among 83 500 Norwegian men and women". University of Tromsø/UiT - Norges arktiske universitet.
2008-08 - 2011-06: BSc N: Nursing. University of Tromsø/UiT - Norges arktiske universitet.
Previous employments:
2020-06 - 2021-04: Program director/Director of studies - BSc Nursing - (UiT) Department for Health and Care Sciences
2017-09 - 2021-04: Assistant professor - BSc Nursing - (UiT) Department for Health and Care Sciences
2015-08 - 2017-06: Registered nurse teacher (RNT) - Teacher supervisor in clinical practice - BSc Nursing - (UiT) Department for Health and Care Sciences
2013-01 - 2017-09: Registered nurse (RN)- University hospital of Northern Norway (UNN) Medical Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Ward (MIHO)
2011-06 - 2013-01: Registered nurse (RN) - University hospital of Northern Norway (UNN) Neurosurgical Ward - Neurosurgery, neurology and orthopedic clinic
2021-04 - 2025-03: Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). Thesis working title: "Utilization of community healthcare services among older high-utilization patients with unplanned hospital admissions. A Norwegian register-based study. UiT - Norges arktiske universitet (180sp)
2015-08 - 2017-05: MSc PH, Epidemiology and biostatistics. Thesis working title: "Cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer risk among 83 500 Norwegian men and women". UiT - Norges arktiske universitet. (120sp)
2008-08 - 2011-06: BSc N: Nursing. UiT - Norges arktiske universitet (180sp)
- Steering group member for the pilot project for more diversity and better gender balance in healthcare sciences.
- 2019-2020: Assistant program director/director of studies- BSc Nursing - (UiT) Department for Health and Care Sciences- UiT- The arctic university of Norway
- 2019 - Group leader of the competence group (National rguidelines and Health and Social Care Education) - UiT- The arctic university of Norway
- 2019 - Permanent Academic Representative on the Institute Counsil at the Department of Health and Care Sciences - UiT- The arctic university of Norway
- 2019 - Instructor Advanced CPR for healthcare personnel - NRR approved (Norsk rescusitasjonsråd)
- 2018-2020: Section Coordinator - BSc Nursing - (UiT) Department for Health and Care Sciences- UiT- The arctic university of Norway