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Open AccessA Sensibility Assessment of the Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT): A Tool to Help Workers with an Episodic Disability Plan Workplace Support
Purpose Sensibility refers to a tool’s comprehensiveness, understandability, relevance, feasibility, and length. It is used in the early development phase to begin assessing a new tool or intervention. This study...
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Primary Care Physicians’ Learning Needs in Returning Ill or Injured Workers to Work. A Sco** Review
Primary care physicians are uniquely positioned to assist ill and injured workers to stay-at-work or to return-to-work. Purpose The purpose of this sco** review is to identify primary care physicians’ learning ...
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Open AccessDisclosure, Privacy and Workplace Accommodation of Episodic Disabilities: Organizational Perspectives on Disability Communication-Support Processes to Sustain Employment
Purpose Employers increasingly are asked to accommodate workers living with physical and mental health conditions that cause episodic disability, where periods of wellness are punctuated by intermittent and often...
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Open AccessSystematic Review of Prognostic Factors for Return to Work in Workers with Sub Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain
Purpose We systematically reviewed the evidence on factors that predict duration of sick leave in workers after 6 weeks low back pain (LBP) related sick leave. We hypothesized that differ...
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Open AccessSystematic Review of Intervention Practices for Depression in the Workplace
Design Systematic Review. Objective To determine which intervention approaches to manage depression in the workplace have been successful and yielded value for employers in developed economies. D...
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Introduction to Special Section: Systematic Reviews for Prevention and Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders
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A Systematic Review of Workplace Ergonomic Interventions with Economic Analyses
Introduction This article reports on a systematic review of workplace ergonomic interventions with economic evaluations. The review sought to answer the question: “what is the credible evidence that incremental i...
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Systematic Review of the Role of Occupational Health and Safety Interventions in the Prevention of Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Symptoms, Signs, Disorders, Injuries, Claims and Lost Time
Background Little is known about the most effective occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions to reduce upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and injuries. Methods A systematic review used a b...
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Workplace Health Understandings and Processes in Small Businesses: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Literature
Introduction Small businesses (SBs) play an important role in global economies, employ half of all workers, and pose distinct workplace health problems. This systematic review of qualitative peer-reviewed literat...
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Effectiveness of Health and Safety in Small Enterprises: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Evaluations of Interventions
Introduction This systematic review was conducted to identify effective occupational health and safety interventions for small businesses. Methods The review focused on peer-reviewed intervention studies conducte...
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Occupational Safety and Health Interventions to Reduce Musculoskeletal Symptoms in the Health Care Sector
Introduction Health care work is dangerous and multiple interventions have been tested to reduce the occupational hazards. Methods A systematic review of the literature used a best evidence synthesis approach to ...
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A Systematic Review of Disability Management Interventions with Economic Evaluations
Introduction We present the results of a systematic literature review of disability management interventions to answer the question: “what is the credible evidence that incremental investment in disability manage...
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Workplace interventions to prevent musculoskeletal and visual symptoms and disorders among computer users: A systematic review
Background: The literature examining the effects of workstation, eyewear and behavioral interventions on musculoskeletal and visual symptoms among computer users is large and heterogeneou...
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Workplace-Based Return-to-Work Interventions: A Systematic Review of the Quantitative Literature
Introduction: A systematic review was conducted to review the effectiveness of workplace-based return-to-work (RTW) interventions. Method: Seven databases were searched, in English and Fr...
