Table 1 The number of diagnoses in the 216 sick-leave certificates compared with the number of diagnoses in the 279 patient medical records, secondary coding of diagnoses included, sorted by ICD-10 chapters.
Diagnosis Chapter (ICD-10) | # Diagnoses from sick-leave certificate (n = 357) | # Diagnoses from patient med. Record (n = 1934) | |
|---|---|---|---|
V | Mental and behavioural disorders | 127 (35.6%) | 526 (27.3%) |
XIII | Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 121 (33.9%) | 622 (32.3%) |
XVIII | Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 27 (7.6%) | 186 (9.7%) |
X | Diseases of respiratory system | 19 (5.3%) | 120 (6.2%) |
IX | Diseases of circulatory system | 11 (3.1%) | 99 (5.1%) |
IV | Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 10 (2.8%) | 92 (4.8%) |
XXI | Factors influencing health status and contact with health services | 9 (2.5%) | 47 (2.4%) |
XI | Diseases of the digestive system | 9 (2.5%) | 41 (2.1%) |
XIX | Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes | 5 (1.4%) | 29 (1.5%) |
VI | Diseases of the nervous system | 3 (0.8%) | 30 (1.6%) |
Others | (nine chapters) | 16 (4.5%) | 135 (7.0%) |