Table 3.

GPs engaged in tasks and situations related to sickness certification at least once a week

Proportion of GPs that at least once a week:	Sweden (n = 3949)	Norway (n = 221)	Proportional diff1.	Mean diff1.	p value2
. . . experiences patients partly or completely say no to sick leave they suggest.	9.3	9.3	1.0	0.0	0.098
. . . say no to a patient who wants a sickness certificate.	15.0	10.4	1.44	4.6	0.075
... experience conflicts with patients about sickness certification.	14.1	11.5	1.23	2.6	0.335
. . . experience patients say that they will change physician if they do not issue a sickness certificate.	2.8	5.1	0.54	-2.3	0.398
... have consultations including consideration of sickness certification.	94.9*	99.5*	0.95	-4.6	0.002
. . . find it problematic to handle sickness certification.	55.0*	43.3*	1.27	11.7	0.001
. . . encounter a patient who wants to be on sick leave for some other reason than work incapacity due to disease or injury.	27.6*	9.5*	2.9	18.1	0.000
. . . worry that patient will go to another physician if they do not issue a sickness certificate.	7.0*	17.5*	0.4	-10.5	0.017

¹Differences between groups reported as proportional difference and mean difference

²P-values for mean difference calculated using the Mann-Whitney test

*p = < 0.01 (in bold)