Mathias Barra

Author information from the last article

Mathias Barra er professorkompetent forsker ved Helsetjenesteforskningssenteret (HØKH), Akershus universitetssykehus og professor ved Klinikk for helsetjenesteforskning og psykiatri, Universitetet i Oslo.

Articles by Mathias Barra

Priority setting – and other strategies for improving resource use

Morten Magelssen,
Mathias Barra,
Eli Feiring,
Henriette Sinding Aasen

24.03.2026: When resources are scarce, the health service must use them wisely. Priority setting, choosing wisely (as part of the Choosing Wisely Norway campaign), withholding treatment and efficiency measures are four strategies that can help improve resource use. There is often no clear distinction made...

Seasonally adjusted birth frequencies follow the Poisson distribution

Mathias Barra,
Jonas C. Lindstrøm,
Samantha S. Adams,
Liv A. Augestad

15.12.2015: Being able to estimate the expected number of non-elective births on a given day, and thus how the activity in maternity wards will vary through the week and the year, is a considerable advantage for heads of maternity clinics and other decision-makers in the health services. This will assist in...

Science, numerology and critical sense

Liv A. Augestad,
Mathias Barra,
Samantha Salvesen Adams

15.12.2015: How can numerology become fact? Neither editorial boards, nor readers, should neglect their own expertise and critical sense, even when reference is made to sophisticated statistical distributions with appurtenant eponyms and the material apparently approved by statisticians. The following is taken...