Empowerment of disability benefit claimants through an interactive website: Design of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Samoocha, David ^a,b,c   Bruinvels, David J ^a,b,c   Anema, R Johannes ^a,b   Steenbeek, Romy ^d   Beek, Allard J Van Der ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre of Law and Health   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISABILITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPOWERMENT; EXPECTATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; JOB SATISFACTION; JUSTICE; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZATION; WORK CAPACITY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABLED PERSON; FOLLOW UP; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SECURITY; TEACHING; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOFTWARE; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 67651159211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-23     Document Type: Article

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