Interventions to enhance return-to-work for cancer patients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  de Boer, Angela Gem E M ^a   Taskila, Tyna K ^b   Tamminga, Sietske J ^a   Feuerstein, Michael ^c   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^d   Verbeek, Jos H ^e  

^a Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

^b THE WORK FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; GOSERELIN; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; TAMOXIFEN; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE; THYROXINE;

ABSENTEEISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; EMPLOYMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXERCISE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOEDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETURN TO WORK; REVIEW; SELF CARE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SURVIVOR; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; RETURN TO WORK; SURVIVORS; WORK;

EID: 84961784957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007569.pub3     Document Type: Review

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