Identifying factors relevant in the assessment of return-to-work efforts in employees on long-term sickness absence due to chronic low back pain: A focus group study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Muijzer, Anna ^a   Geertzen, Jan H ^b   De Boer, Wout E ^c   Groothoff, Johan W ^a   Brouwer, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 84856077424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-77     Document Type: Article

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