Impairment and Disability Rating in Low Back Pain

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 719-740

  Katz, Richard T ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST OF ILLNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; LEGAL ASPECT; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NOMENCLATURE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL INSURANCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; SPINE SURGERY; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33748439367     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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