However, even after implementation of sick leave guidelines, body impairments still dominate the descriptions of functioning in sickness certificates.
Patients with secondary school certificate had significantly worst functioning scores for global health status (p = 0007).
Such certificates function in much the same way as cinema tickets or subway tokens: anyone can establish their validity and the data they specify, but no more than that.
Column sum is more than 100% because some certificates provided information on functioning classified into more than one component.
The quality demands, as stressed by the Swedish sick leave guidelines from 2008, included accurate sickness certificates with assessment of functioning clearly documented.
ICF is feasible for classifying information on disabilities in structures, functioning and activity and participation in sick-listing certificates.
Finally, the certificate used in 2009 required explicitly descriptions of functioning according to activity limitations, and when a certified sick leave length exceeds the recommendations in the guidelines, an explanation for this should be stated in the certificate.
We found that sickness certificates issued in 2009 provided more information on patients' functioning than those issued in 2007 (78% versus 65%, respectively).
For Mr. Jensen, who insists, with the comic self-deprecation that seems part and parcel of both the Dogme movement and the Danish character, on being called a merchant, the Dogme95 certificate has functioned as a public relations device.
Descriptions of functioning according to activity and prescriptions of early rehabilitation increased from approximately one-fourth of certificates in 2007 to one-third in 2009.
The guidelines as well as the certificate that was introduced in 2008 clearly emphasise information on activity limitations when describing the patient's functioning.
