Return to Work Coordination Programmes for Work Disability: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Schandelmaier, Stefan ^a   Ebrahim, Shanil ^b   Burkhardt, Susan C A ^a   de Boer, Wout E L ^a   Zumbrunn, Thomas ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b   Busse, Jason W ^b   Kunz, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMPLOYEE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONG TERM CARE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARDISED ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORK DISABILITY; WORK RESUMPTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETURN TO WORK; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 84869840849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049760     Document Type: Article

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