Sickness certificates in Sweden: did the new guidelines improve their quality?

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Descriptions of functioning in different parts of sickness certificates and classified into ICF components

Functioning	2007N= 475		2009N= 501		P-value
Functioning	%	n	%	n
Anamnesis
Body	82	387	80	402	0.624
Activity	15	73	12	62	0.176
Participation	7	33	4	19	0.028
Clinical findings
Body	75	355	75	376	0.910
Activity	6	26	5	26	0.843
Participation	0.6	3	0.2	1	0.361ª
How the disease limits ability/activity
Body	58	276	65	325	0.03
Activity	26	125	33	164	0.028
Participation	6.5	31	8	39	0.446
All parts*
Body	92	438	94	472	0.213
Activity	35	168	39	197	0.202
Participation	12	59	11	56	0.547
Information on work
Yes	78	370	95	477	<0.001

Column sum is more than 100% because some certificates provided information on functioning classified into more than one component.
ª Fisher’s exact test, 2-sided.* All parts, information on functioning collected from anamnesis, clinical findings and the question “how does the disease limit the patient’s ability/activity”.

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