Staff/executive social insurance physicians and physicians who had been social insurance physicians for less than one year were not eligible for participation.
Social insurance physicians meet their patients (claimants) during the medical disability assessment interview to determine their entitlement to social security benefits.
Social insurance physicians will have habitual and standard methods for exchanging information with claimants, since this represents a substantial part of their job.
Analogously, we will present literature findings to indicate that the communication behaviour of claimants during the assessment interview can be predicted from their attitudes, intentions, skills, and barriers for their communication with social insurance physicians, or communication with physicians in general if they had no prior experience with social insurance physicians.
Analogously, it is expected that the communication behaviour of claimants during the assessment interview can be predicted from their attitudes, intentions, skills, and barriers in the communication with social insurance physicians, or in the communication with physicians in general if they have had no previous experience with social insurance physicians.
The multidisciplinary UC staff consisted of a nursing home physician or social geriatric physician, a psychologist, a paramedical team (physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, welfare worker) and a nursing team (Registered Nurses, Certified Nurse Assistants and/or Nurse Assistants).
This evaluation was first made with three additional experts in the development and/or provision of training programmes for social insurance physicians, and successively in a group of 15 social insurance physicians.
Thirdly, we used the results from a focus group study among social insurance physicians (n = 22) to assess the needs of the physicians [ 19].
As in the conceptualisation for social insurance physicians, prominent characteristics which may be similar for claimants and social insurance physicians are age, gender, and socio-cultural background [ 41, 46].
EM services in Haiti are limited and, when available, are often delivered by generalist or social service physicians with no emergency care training.
From the patient point of view the avoidance of physical impairments such as diarrhea and nausea followed next, and with some distance the possibility of participating in social life – physicians assessed both of these aspects at the same level.
