Table 5 Percentages and odds ratios (OR) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for physicians experiencing sickness certifications of different durations as very or fairly problematic. Stratified by clinical settings using physicians working in internal medicine (n = 1749) as reference group. The ORs were adjusted for continuous age
|  | Found it very or fairly problematic to… | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | … assess the degree to which the reduced functioning limits unemployed patients’ work capacity | … handle short-term sickness certifications (<15 days)? | … handle sickness certifications (15–90 days)? | … handle long-term sickness certifications (91–180 days)? | … handle very long-term sickness certifications (>180 days)? | |||||
| Â | % | OR (95Â % CI) | % | OR (95Â % CI) | % | OR (95Â % CI) | % | OR (95Â % CI) | % | OR (95Â % CI) |
Internal medicine | 63.4 | 1 | 6.1 | 1 | 32.5 | 1 | 48.2 | 1 | 44.7 | 1 |
Orthopaedics | 63.2 | 1.07 (0.90–1.28) | 9.7 | 1.65 (1.21–2.24) | 26.2 | 0.77 (0.64–0.92) | 55.5 | 1.43 (1.21–1.69) | 57.1 | 1.72 (1.45–2.03) |
Primary health care | 79.1 | 2.59 (2.28–2.95) | 5.8 | 0.94 (0.74–1.19) | 54.5 | 2.70 (2.40–3.05) | 76.9 | 4.03 (3.57–4.56) | 76.4 | 4.32 (3.83–4.88) |
Occupational health service | 42.8 | 0.70 (0.54–0.90) | 1.8 | 0.28 (0.12–0.66) | 13.1 | 0.41 (0.29–0.57) | 25.9 | 0.53 (0.40–0.69) | 35.9 | 0.87 (0.68–1.12) |
Rehabilitation | 50.4 | 0.70 (0.48–1.01) | 1.7 | 0.26 (0.06–1.08) | 15.2 | 0.41 (0.25–0.67) | 25.6 | 0.42 (0.27–0.63) | 30.4 | 0.59 (0.40–0.87) |
Pain management | 55.4 | 1.05 (0.61–1.80) | 12.5 | 2.17 (0.90–5.24) | 23.6 | 0.79 (0.42–1.48) | 30.4 | 0.61 (0.34–1.09) | 35.7 | 0.82 (0.47–1.44) |
Oncology | 51.6 | 0.66 (0.52–0.84) | 4.6 | 0.74 (0.43–1.30) | 10.7 | 0.26 (0.18–0.37) | 24.6 | 0.37 (0.28–0.48) | 34.6 | 0.68 (0.53–0.87) |
Psychiatry | 67.2 | 1.40 (1.18–1.66) | 8.7 | 1.46 (1.08–1.98) | 32.4 | 1.08 (0.91–1.28) | 52.0 | 1.30 (1.11–1.53) | 55.4 | 1.66 (1.41–1.95) |
Rheumatology | 72.6 | 1.87 (1.32–2.64) | 6.7 | 1.10 (0.59–2.04) | 40.8 | 1.58 (1.15–2.16) | 57.8 | 1.68 (1.23–2.30) | 65.0 | 2.52 (1.82–3.47) |
Neurology | 72.8 | 1.61 (1.19–2.18) | 7.4 | 1.23 (0.73–2.07) | 31.7 | 0.98 (0.74–1.31) | 58.1 | 1.53 (1.16–2.01) | 55.9 | 1.59 (1.21–2.08) |
Surgery | 49.4 | 0.56 (0.48–0.65) | 5.7 | 0.93 (0.68–1.26) | 23.6 | 0.65 (0.55–0.76) | 32.2 | 0.51 (0.44–0.59) | 27.3 | 0.46 (0.40–0.54) |
Gynaecology | 58.4 | 0.90 (0.76–1.07) | 6.9 | 1.13 (0.81–1.58) | 27.9 | 0.85 (0.71–1.02) | 28.3 | 0.45 (0.38–0.54) | 18.0 | 0.28 (0.23–0.35) |
Infectious diseases | 54.3 | 0.68 (0.53–0.87) | 2.2 | 0.35 (0.16–0.76) | 31.0 | 0.94 (0.72–1.22) | 40.4 | 0.73 (0.57–0.93) | 31.1 | 0.56 (0.43–0.72) |
Dermatology | 52.4 | 0.74 (0.54–1.02) | 7.3 | 1.21 (0.65–2.25) | 32.7 | 1.10 (0.79–1.55) | 37.3 | 0.71 (0.51–0.99) | 34.5 | 0.70 (0.50–0.98) |
Others | 45.1 | 0.50 (0.43–0.59) | 6.3 | 1.04 (0.75–1.44) | 22.1 | 0.61 (0.51–0.73) | 27.6 | 0.43 (0.36–0.51) | 26.4 | 0.46 (0.39–0.54) |
Administration | 59.7 | 1.18 (0.70–2.00) | 0.0 | 0 (0–0) | 16.4 | 0.48 (0.24–0.96) | 36.1 | 0.76 (0.45–1.30) | 37.7 | 0.87 (0.51–1.48) |