Employment among patients with multiple sclerosis-A population study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Bøe Lunde, Hanne Marie ^a   Telstad, Wenche ^b   Grytten, Nina ^a,d   Kyte, Lars ^c   Aarseth, Jan ^a   Myhr, Kjell Morten ^a,d   Bø, Lars ^a,d  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Department of Microbiology   (Norway)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; FINGOLIMOD; GLATIRAMER; MITOXANTRONE; NATALIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORWAY; ONSET AGE; PARTTIME EMPLOYMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK CAPACITY; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NORWAY; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904647074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103317     Document Type: Article

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