How to facilitate guideline use? A bottom-up qualitative approach developing a training programme for professionals involved in work participation of people with a chronic disease

Background: A guideline for occupational health professionals (OHPs) is developed which provides them with knowledge and skills to optimize their guidance to people with a chronic disease. Objective: Developing a training programme to acquire and apply knowledge and skills provided by the guideline, through a bottom-up approach. Methods: First,...

Case-specific colleague guidance for general practitioners' management of sickness absence

Background General practitioners (GPs) report sickness absence certification as challenging. They express need for support with functional assessment beyond guidelines and reforms. Case-specific collegial oneto- one guidance for other clinical topics has proved popular with GPs and may be an acceptable and effective way to improve GPs skills and...

How do Dutch GPs address work-related problems? A focus group study

Background: In the Netherlands, there is a lack of knowledge about general practitioners’ (GPs) perception of their role regarding patients’ occupation and work related problems (WRP). As work and health are closely related, and patients expect help from their GPs in this area, a better understanding is needed of GPs’ motivation to address WRP....

An education programme to increase general practitioners awareness of their patients employment Design of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Background. Work and being able to work are important prerequisites for health and well being. Health problems can have a negative influence on the ability to work and not being able to work can be detrimental for patients’ psychosocial well being. Although GPs are aware of this importance they do not always structurally pay attention to...

Interviews for the assessment of long-term incapacity for work: A study on adherence to protocols and principles

Background. Assessments for long-term incapacity for work are performed by Social Insurance Physicians (SIPs) who rely on interviews with claimants as an important part of the process. These interviews are susceptible to bias. In the Netherlands three protocols have been developed to conduct these interviews. These protocols are expert- and...