Medical-legal issues in headache: Penal and civil Italian legislation, working claims, social security, off-label prescription

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Aguggia, Marco ^a,b   Cavallini, M ^a,b   Varetto, L ^a,b  

^a Neurology Department   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disability; Headache; Medical legal; Off label; Social security; Working diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL LAW; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PENSION; PRESCRIPTION; SOCIAL SECURITY; SYMPTOM; VICTIM; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; EXPERT WITNESS; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; WORK;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HEADACHE; HUMANS; ITALY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SOCIAL SECURITY; WORK;

EID: 33746302815     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-006-0601-3     Document Type: Article

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