Improved Functional Capacity Evaluation Performance Predicts Successful Return to Work One Year After Completing a Functional Restoration Rehabilitation Program

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Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 365-375

  Fore, Lisa ^a   Perez, Yoheli ^a   Neblett, Randy ^a   Asih, Sali ^a   Mayer, Tom G ^b   Gatchel, Robert J ^c  

^a PRIDE Research Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHRONIC DISABLING OCCUPATIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETURN TO WORK; TASK PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; WORK CAPACITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETURN TO WORK; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 84927798323     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2014.09.013     Document Type: Article

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