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[Relationship between the physician's profile and transient work incapacity of his patients]
A Gensana López1, M Torralba Guirao, M I Calero García
1Sector Sanitario de Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Martorell, Barcelona.
Objective:
To discover the relation between doctor's profile and his patient's unfitness for work.
Design:
This was an observational crossover study.
Setting:
Regional health authorities of Sant Feliu (Barcelona).
Participants:
30 general practitioners throughout the whole of 1992.
Measurements And Main Results:
Temporary doctors concede significance less unfitness for work (p = 0.002), and less unfitness motivated by flu (p = 0.028) than the others. Doctors belonging to the morning shift concede more upper respiratory infectious process (p = 0.03) than doctors belonging to the afternoon shift. Younger doctors and those specialised in family practice concede less unfitness for work motivated by flu than the others (p = 0.020) and (p = 0.019) respectively.
Conclusions:
The doctor's stability of work is the most influential factor analysed of the unfitness for work of his patients.