Author Details Exploring factors that affect hospital referral in rural settings: a case study from Norway Kristian Gjessing1 Medical Student, Medical Student, kristian.gjessing@gmail.com Tomas Faresjö2 Associate Professor, Associate Professor, tomfa@ihs.liu.se 1, 2 SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden. Correspondence: K Gjessing, Långgatan 17, SE-58955 Linköping Sweden  Author contribution: Kristian Gjessing: original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft, literature review. Tomas Faresjö: contributed to drafts. Citation: Gjessing K, Faresjö T.  Exploring factors that affect hospital referral in rural settings: a case study from Norway. Rural and Remote Health 9: 975. (Online) 2009. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 26 March 2008 Revised: 24 June 2008 Accepted: 4 February 2009