Cost-effectiveness of a vocational enablement protocol for employees with hearing impairment; Design of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gussenhoven, Arjenne H M ^a   Anema, Johannes R ^a,b   Goverts, S Theo ^a   Bosmans, Judith E ^c   Festen, Joost M ^a   Kramer, Sophia E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

'Need for recovery after work'; Economic evaluation; Hearing loss; Integrated care; Intervention; Occupational physician; Psychosocial problems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84857608850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-151     Document Type: Article

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