The history of registered sickness absence predicts future sickness absence

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 96-101

  Roelen, C A M ^a,b   Koopmans, P C ^b   Schreuder, J A H ^b   Anema, J R ^a   van der Beek, A J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ArboNed BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; History of sickness absence; Sick leave; Sickness absence record

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952025381     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq181     Document Type: Article

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