How long can you keep working with benign multiple sclerosis?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-82

  Glad, Solveig B ^a,b   Nyland, Harald ^a,b   Aarseth, Jan Harald ^a   Riise, Trond ^a,b   Myhr, Kjell Morten ^a,b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPLOYMENT; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SYMPTOM; WORKLOAD;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORWAY; PAIN; PENSIONS; PROGNOSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 78650463921     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.210732     Document Type: Article

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