Employment and litigation: Improved by work, assisted by verdict

Pain

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-257

  Suter, Paul Bryan ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back pain; Employment; Jurisprudence; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; LAW SUIT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN CLINIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RISK FACTORS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 0036898860     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(02)00238-5     Document Type: Article

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