title: [Relationship between the physician's profile and transient work incapacity of his patients].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sector Sanitario de Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Martorell, Barcelona.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gensana López
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torralba Guirao
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Calero García
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: González Ares
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003154:Community Medicine; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D010821:Physicians, Family; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation
vernacular_title: Relación entre el perfil del médico de cabecera y la incapacidad laboral transitoria de sus pacientes.