ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To discover the relation between doctor's profile and his patient's unfitness for work. DESIGN: This was an observational crossover study. SETTING: Regional health authorities of Sant Feliu (Barcelona). PARTICIPANTS: 30 general practitioners throughout the whole of 1992. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN 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.
