Sick-listed employees with severe medically unexplained physical symptoms: Burden or routine for the occupational health physician? A cross sectional study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hoedeman, Rob ^a,b   Krol, Boudien ^a   Blankenstein, Annette H ^c   Koopmans, Petra C ^a,b   Groothoff, Johan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ArboNed Occupational Health Services   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ABSENTEEISM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PHYSICIANS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICK LEAVE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 78049479471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-305     Document Type: Article

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