We collapsed the 33 grade socio-professional categorisation of occupations developed by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office [ 17] into eight categories of socio-professional status capturing skill level and position of individuals on the labour market.
It is a useful marker for medical professionals: it allows categorisation, it triggers progression through the system, and it dictates best practice for different stages of treatment.
The descriptive model of the obstetric care system we have developed as part of our study is based on the categorisation of individual professional organisational contexts and related patients (records).
Intuitive categorisation relies on interpretation and professional judgement when categorising stakeholders among conventional stakeholder groups.
After categorisation of the individual professional contexts in which deliveries take place, the resulting framework has been superimposed on the 2002 2010 database of the Netherlands Perinatal Registry.
(F3A15) Others questioned the categorisation of obesity by health professionals.
We subsequently verified the accuracy of respondents' categorisation by confirming the specialty of each named professional in the records of Quebec's medical and professional associations (names were subsequently discarded to preserve confidentiality).
The nature, diagnosis and categorisation of PD has been widely deliberated among mental health professionals, yet has been subjected to little empirical research [ 2].
Hence "tendencies": professionals are careful to use terms for young people that avoid a permanent categorisation.
Adjudication refers to professional judgments about the presentation of an individual for intervention or service, influenced by categorisations of patients made by professionals with reference to current services and relationships.
The aim of the survey was to determine how medical students classify a range of conditions they might encounter in their professional lives and whether a different name for a condition would influence their decision in the categorisation of the condition as a 'disease' or 'not a disease'.
