Work status and its determinants among patients with systemic sclerosis: A systematic review

Rheumatology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1304-1314

  Schouffoer, Anne A ^a   Schoones, Jan W ^a   Terwee, Caroline B ^b   Vliet Vlieland, Theodora P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability; Employment status; Predictors; Productivity; Socio economic burden; Systemic sclerosis; Work

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WORK; WORK DISABILITY;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84863838335     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ker523     Document Type: Article

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