Preventing work disability among employees with rheumatoid arthritis: What medical professionals can learn from the patients' perspective

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 965-972

  Varekamp, Inge ^a,b   Haafkens, Joke A ^a   Detaille, Sarah I ^a   Tak, Paul P ^a   Van Dijk, Frank J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concept mapping; Employment; Job retention; Patients' perspective; Rheumatic arthritis; Work disability

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POLICY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIAL SECURITY; WORK DISABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PATIENTS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 29144514784     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21592     Document Type: Article

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