How primary health care physicians make sick listing decisions: The impact of medical factors and functioning

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Norrmén, Gunilla ^a,b   Svärdsudd, Kurt ^a   Andersson, Dan K G ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c National Board of Health and Welfare   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONSULTATION; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LEAVE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; ABSENTEEISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WORK CAPACITY;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 40749099454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-3     Document Type: Article

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