A clinician's guide to work-related assessments: 3 - Administration and interpretation problems

Work

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-219

  Innes, Ev ^a   Straker, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Criterion referenced assessment; Functional capacity evaluation; Normative data; Occupational rehabilitation; Sincerity of effort; Work assessment; Work related assessment

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK;

EID: 0031727292     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/wor-1998-11210     Document Type: Review

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