Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Work Support Intervention for Female Cancer Patients - A Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tamminga, Sietske J ^a   Verbeek, Jos H A M ^a,b   Bos, Monique M E M ^c   Fons, Guus ^a   Kitzen, Jos J E M ^d   Plaisier, Peter W ^d   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^a   de Boer, Angela G E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LEAVE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETURN TO WORK; SELF CONCEPT; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETURN TO WORK; SICK LEAVE; WORK;

EID: 84878089356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063271     Document Type: Article

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