Table 1 Verifiability of diagnostic categories and work ability, and occurrence of diagnostic categories warranting disability pension awards
Diagnostic categories descending by verifiability of diagnostic categories | Diagnostic categories †mean (SD) | Work ability ‡ mean (SD) | Occurrence * |
|---|---|---|---|
Unspecified rheumatism/myalgia | 1.7 (0.95) | 1.4 (0.98) | 6.1 |
Dorsopathies | 2.4 (0.84) | 1.9 (0.87) | 14.2 |
Neurotic disorders and disorders of adult personality and behaviour | 2.5 (0.84) | 2.2 (0.81) | 15.1 |
Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use | 2.7 (1.05) | 2.3 (0.97) | 1.7 |
Mood [affective] disorders | 2.9 (1.07) | 2.5 (0.96) | 4.8 |
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes | 3.7 (1.06) | 2.8 (1.04) | 4.9 |
Organic mental disorders/schizophrenic and delusional disorders | 3.8 (1.03) | 3.5 (0.99) | 4.3 |
Diseases of the nervous system | 4.0 (0.76) | 3.3 (0.77) | 6.5 |
Arthrosis | 4.0 (0.87) | 2.9 (0.98) | 4.1 |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 4.1 (0.82) | 2.9 (1.13) | 1.6 |
Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 4.2 (0.74) | 3.5 (0.97) | 1.4 |
Rheumatoid arthritis | 4.2 (0.77) | 3.3 (0.93) | 2.3 |
Mental retardation | 4.3 (0.79) | 3.9 (0.82) | 4.1 |
Cerebrovascular diseases | 4.3 (0.68) | 3.6 (0.97) | 2.0 |
Ischaemic heart diseases | 4.4 (0.68) | 3.4 (0.94) | 2.8 |
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 4.7 (0.62) | 4.0 (0.87) | 2.0 |
Neoplasms | 4.8 (0.45) | 3.4 (0.98) | 2.4 |