Nr | How often in your clinical work do you… | At least once a week | About once a month/ a few times/year | Never or almost never |
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1 | … find sickness certification cases to be problematic? | 11.7 | 75.6 | 12.7 |
2 | … encounter a patient who wants to be on sick leave for some reason other than work incapacity due to disease or injury? | 4.1 | 59.3 | 36.6 |
3 | … say no to a patient who asks for a sickness certificate? | 1.4 | 47.0 | 51.5 |
4 | … have patients who partly or completely say no to a sick leave you suggest? | 1.3 | 43.7 | 55.0 |
5 | … issue a sickness certificate so that a patient will be eligible for higher benefits than unemployment or welfare benefits? | .0 | 31.8 | 68.2 |
6 | … have conflicts with patients about sickness certification? | 3.3 | 39.6 | 57.1 |
7 | … worry that a patient will report you to the medical disciplinary board in connection with sickness certification? | 4.2 | 31.6 | 64.2 |
8 | … feel threatened by a patient in connection with sickness certification? | 1.6 | 28.2 | 70.2 |
9 | … worry that patients are going to change physician if you don’t issue a sickness certificate? | .0 | 36.4 | 63.6 |
10 | … have patients saying they will change physician if you don’t issue a sickness certificate | 2.3 | 13.8 | 83.8 |
11 | … collaborate with or refer patients to physical or occupational therapists when handling cases involving sickness certification? | 4.7 | 58.8 | 36.5 |
12 | … collaborate with or refer patients to social workers and/or psychologists when handling cases involving sickness certification? | 13.0 | 66.2 | 20.8 |
13 | … confer with other doctors when handling cases involving sickness certification? | 1.9 | 39.5 | 58.6 |
14 | … have time alone or with colleagues for supervision/feedback/reflection related to sickness certification issues? | 1.5 | 40.0 | 58.5 |
When handling sickness certification tasks, how often do you not have enough time… | ||||
15 | … with your patients? | 60.9 | 22.6 | 16.5 |
16 | … to manage patient-related aspects (e.g. issuing certificates, contacting other stakeholders, documentation and meetings)? | 76.6 | 17.0 | 6.3 |
17 | … for further education, supervision or reflection? | 69.2 | 20.2 | 10.6 |
How often in your clinical work do you… | ||||
18 | … refer/send patients to occupational health services? | .3 | 30.5 | 69.2 |
19 | … issue sickness certificates to patients without seeing them (e.g. by telephone)? | 4.5 | 62.0 | 33.5 |
20 | … apply the new national guidelines for sickness certification? | 6.8 | 55.7 | 37.5 |
21 | … or does your health care team participate in coordination meetings with social insurance and/or employers about patients to whom you issue sickness certificates? | 1.3 | 66.3 | 32.4 |
22 | … or does your care team contact employers in ways other than via the coordination meetings? | 1.1 | 45.9 | 53.0 |
23 | … contact social services when handling cases involving sickness certification? | 1.7 | 46.1 | 52.3 |
24 | … contact the employment offices when handling cases involving sickness certification? | 1.0 | 37.6 | 61.4 |
25 | … wish there was someone (e.g. a coach or an advisor) who could coordinate measures implemented for patients? | 15.6 | 54.0 | 30.5 |