Juin 2005
Context
In 2000 the job standard time has been reduced in France from 39 to 35 hours a week. Unions complained that the same amount of work had just been deployed on less hours. At the same time GP and occupational physicians said that they noticed an increase in periarticular pathologies.
Objective
To assess evolution of periarticular pathologies presented by patients consulting French GPs in 1999 and 2004.
Methods
Prospective descriptive study of data collected ongoing and in real time by a GP network for all patients and every consultation and home visit in 1999 and 2004. Marker of periarticular pathologies: Shoulder (tenosynovitis) Epicondylitis and Tenosynovitis. For this 3 health problem we analysed the number of consultation and the evolution between 1999 and 2004
using Khi test.
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In 2000 the job standard time has been reduced in France from 39 to 35 hours a week. Unions complained that the same amount of work had just been deployed on less hours. At the same time GP and occupational physicians said that they noticed an increase in periarticular pathologies.
Objective
To assess evolution of periarticular pathologies presented by patients consulting French GPs in 1999 and 2004.
Methods
Prospective descriptive study of data collected ongoing and in real time by a GP network for all patients and every consultation and home visit in 1999 and 2004. Marker of periarticular pathologies: Shoulder (tenosynovitis) Epicondylitis and Tenosynovitis. For this 3 health problem we analysed the number of consultation and the evolution between 1999 and 2004
using Khi test.
[lire la publication]