Workplace assessments and functional capacity evaluations: Current beliefs of therapists in Australia

Work

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-236

  Innes, Ev ^a   Straker, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment strategies; Functional capacity evaluation; Qualitative approach; Work related assessment; Workplace assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK CAPACITY; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; ROLE; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0038449852     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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