Attributes of excellence in work-related assessments

Work

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-76

  Innes, Ev ^a   Straker, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional capacity evaluation; Work related assessment; Workplace assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; JOB PERFORMANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0037237503     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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