Employment and insurance outcomes and factors associated with employment among long-term thyroid cancer survivors: a population-based study from the PROFILES registry

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 997-1005

  Tamminga, S J ^a   Bultmann U ^b   Husson, O ^c,d   Kuijpens, J L P ^e   Frings Dresen, M H W ^a   de Boer, A G E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^e VGZ Health Insurance Company   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer survivorship; Employment; Population based study; Thyroid cancer; Work

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; INSURANCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INSURANCE, LIFE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944704848     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-015-1135-z     Document Type: Article

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