How can doctors help their patients to return to work?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 312-315

  Verbeek, Jos H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LEAVE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TESTIS CANCER; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPLOYMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33645340347     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030088     Document Type: Review

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