Sources of variation in work disability assessment

Work

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 405-411

  Spanjer, J ^a,b   Krol, B ^b   Brouwer, S ^b   Groothoff, J W ^b  

^a Social Security Office   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

observer variation; outcome assessment; theoretical model; Work capacity evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORK CAPACITY;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 78650586855     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2010-1094     Document Type: Article

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