Impact of persistent pain symptoms on work absence, health status and employment 18 months following disabling work-related injury or illness
Conclusions
Persistent pain symptom prevalence 18 months postinjury is high among workers disabled by a work-related injury and associated with substantial functional impairment and longer wage replacement benefit duration.
Source: Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Dobson, K. G., Mustard, C., Carnide, N., Furlan, A., Smith, P. M. Tags: Open access Workplace Source Type: research
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