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Table 1 Characteristics of Medical Appraisals and Patients.

From: Satisfaction of staff of Swiss insurance companies with medical appraisals: a cross sectional study

Type of appraisal

N = 3165*

Appraisal for disability insurance, No. (%)

2444 (77)

Appraisal for private insurances (private accident insurances; liability insurances; loss of income insurances), No. (%)

678 (22)

Other appraisals (non-private loss of income, accident or occupational disease insurances; or no data entry), No. (%)

43 (1)

Number of involved medical specialties per appraisal

 

1 specialty (mono-disciplinary appraisal), No. (%)

2072 (65)

2 specialties (bi-disciplinary appraisal), No. (%)

437 (14)

3 up to 7 specialties (poly-disciplinary appraisal), No. (%)

656 (21)

Time interval needed for generation of appraisal

 

Appraisal for disability insurance, weeks (SD)

20.8 (16.1)

Appraisal for private insurances, weeks (SD)

11.6 (16.8)

Patients assessed with appraisal

 

Mean age (SD)

45.9 (10.5)

Women, No. (%)

1606 (51)

Employment status (prior to the problem that lead to medical appraisal)

 

Self-employed, No. (%)

206 (7)

Employed (non-specialist function), No. (%)

1590 (50)

Employed (specialist function), No. (%)

927 (29)

Employed (superior function), No. (%)

100 (3)

Other (work at home; looking for job; education), No. (%)

342 (11)

  1. * The unit of analysis is the medical appraisal. Due to missing data, subgroups comprise less than all cases per group.