Even in less serious cases (e.g., minor sickness, trip cancellation, etc).
If the system cannot be trusted to guarantee a threshold level of quality, it will remain underutilized, be bypassed, used only for minor sickness, or used as a measure of last option [ 9].
I've had some minor altitude sickness while having an impromptu brainstorming session on a large volcano in Ecuador.
All eight residents -- five of whom were unconscious -- were taken to the hospital, as were three police officers who suffered minor inhalation sickness, the police said.
Use of laboratory tests, minor surgery, sickness certification and length of consultations.
We divided immigrant doctors into two groups according to their area of origin: Europe, North America, Oceania Asia, Africa, Latin America For each doctor, we calculated the percentage of consultations in which the following services had been given: laboratory test, minor surgery, sickness certification and extra time (consultation lasting more than 20 min).
As physicians in general receive only minor training in sickness certification [ 14, 16], more educational efforts such as the described Norwegian method possibly could improve the physicians' professional competence in the area and the quality of related assessments.
Individual factors such as age, gender, smoking and physical activity were of minor importance in predicting sickness absence from MSD in this industrial population.
Elovainio, Kivimäki and Vahtera [ 22] found a positive correlation between high organizational justice and high self-rated health, fewer minor psychiatric disorders, and less sickness absence.
For minor ailments like stomach ache, motion sickness or cold, pharmacists can also act as drug advisors.
The minor importance of age in predicting sickness absence from MSD was also found in a study among welders and metal workers [ 11].
