[Relationship between the physician's profile and transient work incapacity of his patients].
OBJECTIVE
To discover the relation between doctor's profile and his patient's unfitness for work.


METHODS
This was an observational crossover study.


METHODS
Regional health authorities of Sant Feliu (Barcelona).


METHODS
30 general practitioners throughout the whole of 1992.


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.
Gensana López
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Sector Sanitario de Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Martorell, Barcelona.
Torralba Guirao
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Calero García
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González Ares
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D000367:Age Factors; D003154:Community Medicine; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation
Relación entre el perfil del médico de cabecera y la incapacidad laboral transitoria de sus pacientes.