Return to work following traumatic brain injury: Trends and challenges

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1387-1395

  Shames, Jeffrey ^a   Treger, Iuly ^b   Ring, Haim ^b   Giaquinto, Salvatore ^c  

^a MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Traumatic brain injury; Vocational rehabilitation; Work

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY LIFE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MOBILIZATION; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REHABILITATION CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN INJURIES; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL;

EID: 34548361737     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701315011     Document Type: Article

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