Diagnoses have the greatest impact on variation in sick-leave certification rate among primary-care patients in Sweden: A multilevel analysis including patient, physician and primary health-care centre levels.

Summary, in English

The aims of this study were to determine and evaluate simultaneously the importance of factors known to influence sick-leave certification such as the sick leave-related diagnoses, the patients' socio-economic status, and characteristics of the physicians.

• Author: Karin Starzmann; Per Hjerpe; Sofia Dalemo; Henrik Ohlsson; Cecilia Björkelund; Kristina Bengtsson Boström
• Department/s: Social Epidemiology; Centre for Economic Demography; Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Translational Muscle Research
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 704-712
• Publication/Series: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 7
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26122466?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494815591898
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Topic: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Social Epidemiology; Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1651-1905