Functional assessment of injured workers: A profile of assessor practices

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-23

  Strong, Susan ^a,b   Baptiste, Susan ^b   Cole, Donald ^c,d   Clarke, Judith ^d   Costa, Marcos ^b   Shannon, Harry ^d,e   Reardon, Rhoda ^d   Sinclair, Sandra ^b,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Job re entry; Rehabilitation, vocational; Work capacity evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MALE; MARKET; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PHILOSOPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK CAPACITY; WORK RESUMPTION;

EID: 1542376707     PISSN: 00084174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000841740407100106     Document Type: Article

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