Table 1 Patient volume in 2001 (patients admitted for the first time) for highly specialized medical services centralized to one (monopolies) or two (bipolies) university hospitals in Norway.
From: Quality or equality? The Norwegian experience with medical monopolies
Services and/or diagnoses allocated to health service monopolies or duopolies | Volume hospital 1 | Volume hospital 2 | Location (city) of service |
|---|---|---|---|
All organ transplantations# | 354 | Oslo | |
Cardiac arrhytmias (surgical treatment) | 5 | Oslo | |
Rheuma surgery in children | 53 | Oslo | |
Elective surgery in haemophiliacs | 37 | Oslo | |
Cochlea implants in children | 33 | Oslo | |
Advanced craniofascial surgery | 74 | Oslo | |
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome | 8 | Oslo | |
Embolization of cerebral A-V malformations | 46 | Oslo | |
Phenylketonuria | 5 | Oslo | |
Advanced replantation surgery | 48 | Oslo | |
Advanced retinal surgery | 0 | Oslo | |
Retinoblastoma | 3 | Oslo | |
Trans-sexualism | 6 | Oslo | |
Large hemangiomas and vascular malformations | 153 | Oslo | |
Diagnosis and treatment of severe epilepsia* | 431 | Oslo | |
Surgical treatment of epilepsia | 50 | Oslo | |
Choriocarcinoma | 4 | Oslo | |
Exentration surgery for gynaecologic. cancer | 5 | Oslo | |
Perfusion chemotherapy | 5 | Oslo | |
Congenital glaucoma | 11 | Oslo | |
Oculoplasty | 71 | Oslo | |
Advanced burns | 70 | Bergen | |
Elective hyperbar treatment | 251 | Bergen | |
Treatment with keratoprosthesis | 0 | Bergen | |
Radiation (knife) neurosurgery | 178 | Bergen | |
Photopheresis | 5 | Trondheim | |
Advanced invasive foetal care | 71 | Trondheim | |
Complicated neck and spine disorders | 8 | Trondheim | |
Neonatal surgery (excluded cardiac) | 80 | 38 | Oslo/Trondheim |
Sperm bank | 107 | 94 | Oslo/Trondheim |
Elective open heart surgery in children | 200 | 49 | Oslo/Bergen |
Cochlea implants in adults | 21 | 6 | Oslo/Bergen |
Intersex | 8 | 11 | Oslo/Bergen |
Cleft lip-jaw-palate | 113 | 45 | Oslo/Bergen |
Brachytherapy | 0 | 4 | Oslo/Bergen |