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

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Final multivariate analyses of the effects of significant variables in reports from GPs and patients on sick listing.

	All diseases (n = 409)		Infectious diseases (n = 144)		Musculoskeletal diseases (n = 103)
	OR¹⁾	99.5% CI	OR¹⁾	99.5% CI	OR¹⁾	99.5% CI
GPs' questionnaires:
Complaints entirely or primarily somatic	0.16	0.04–0.61	0.03	0.001–1.72	0.096	0.003–3.41
Complaints severely limited the patient from occupational work	8.89	3.60–21.93	2.80	0.46–17.26	14.16	3.15–63.64
Complaints severely limited the patient from everyday pursuits	1.55	0.44–5.42	N.A²⁾.		N.A.²⁾
Complaints severely limited the patient to fully take care of his/her children	N.A.²⁾		13.18	0.83–208.25	N.A.²⁾
Patients' questionnaire:
Exercising weekly or more often to sweatiness or breathlessness	N.A.²⁾		0.36	0.07–1.92	N.A.²⁾
Sick-listed during last year	1.39	0.77–2.54	N.A.²⁾		1.93	0.66–5.61
Appointment for back, neck, arms//hands, legs/feet complaints	3.55	1.47–8.59	N.A.²⁾		N.A.²⁾
Appointment for tiredness	2.16	0.55–8.58	N.A.²⁾		N.A.²⁾
Complaints limited me from occupational work	7.01	2.69–18.29	6.35	1.59–25.38	7.91	1.69–36.95

¹⁾ odds ratios (OR) and their 99.5% confidence intervals (CI).
²⁾ N.A. = not applicable due to non-significance in previous steps in multivariate analysis.

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