Views on sick-listing practice among Swedish General Practitioners - A phenomenographic study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Swartling, Malin ^a,b   Peterson, Stefan ^c   Wahlström, Rolf ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIETY; SWEDEN; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK CAPACITY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATEKEEPING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUESTIONNAIRES; SICK LEAVE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 34648833033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-8-44     Document Type: Article

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