Sentence examples for quality of sick from inspiring English sources

Further research should be performed to elucidate the complex relationship between physician competence/experience and performance in insurance medicine, for example considering the quality of sick notes.

For this assessment we defined indicators of correct case management based on existing consensus indicators for the quality of sick child care developed for IMCI (WHO 2003) after adaptation to reflect the Malawi CCM clinical guidelines.

Results from a health facility survey among IMCI-trained health professionals also conducted in 2009 showed that quality of sick childcare in health facilities had important limitations and was not markedly better than the care in VHCs.

This has implications for newborn survival, despite the increased care-seeking, since such places have limited capacity for and quality of sick newborn management, and may lead to delays in receiving appropriate care.

> -wrap-foot> Table 4 presents the key results related to the quality of sick child care in the areas of assessment, classification and treatment, including the rational use of antibiotics and referral of the child to a health facility.

A systematic literature review as well as other studies [ 1, 5] have established evidence that the quality of sick notes is often low from the perspective of the stakeholders who use such documents as a basis for determining whether patients are entitled to sickness benefits, that is, the patients' employers and the SIO.

Nevertheless, few of the physicians felt they required more knowledge about issuing sickness certificates, which suggests that the poor quality of some sick notes is due to something other than the mere lack of knowledge and skills.

Neither reported physical activity and work ability (Table 2) nor quality of life, sick leave and medication showed any significant differences across time or between groups.

Previous research on physicians' knowledge and skills in insurance medicine has mainly considered the quality of the sick notes issued, not the physicians' own assessments of their knowledge regarding such tasks [ 5].

In the USA, VLUs have been estimated to cost a billion dollars a year, representing an average cost of over 40,000 dollars during the lifetime of each patient [ 1], without taking into account the financial effects of impaired quality of life, sick leave and frequent hospitalization.

Major themes that emerged from the interviews were: (i) choice of modality; (ii) training and coping; (iii) communication with health services; (iv) quality-of-life and sick role; (v) potential for telemedicine.