Table III.
Proportion of general practitioners in Poland and Norway that would offer a sick leave note for respiratory tract diseases.
| Disease | Poland (n = 216) %, 95% CI | Norway (n = 171) %, 95% CI | Adjusted relative risks1 95% CI |
| Female, age 30 Pneumonia | 99.5 (98.6–100) | 97.1 (94.5–99.6) | 1.02 (0.99–1.04) |
| Male, age 50 Sinusitis | 94.9 (92.0–97.9) | 82.5 (76.7–88.2) | 1.16 (1.07–1.26) |
| Female, age 45 Common cold | 86.6 (82.0–91.1) | 60.2 (52.9–67.7) | 1.50 (1.28–1.75) |
| Male, age 55 Exacerbation of COPD | 93.5 (90.2–96.8) | 89.5 (84.8–94.1) | 1.05 (0.98–1.13) |
Note: 1Relative risk for offering a sick-leave note in Poland versus Norway, adjusted for sex, speciality, number of years worked as a physician, and average number of patients seen per hour, using multivariate log-Poisson regression with robust standard errors.