The association between rurality and return to work for workers’ compensation claimants with work-related musculoskeletal injuries: An analysis of workers who failed to return to work within typical healing time frames

Objectives: The objectives of this study have been to: 1) describe and compare urban and rural injured worker populations in Alberta, Canada; 2) identify return-to-work outcomes in urban and rural populations; 3) examine the relationship between geographic location of residence and recovery from wor...

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Hauptverfasser: Callum A. Lavoie, Don Voaklander, Jeremy R. Beach, Douglas P. Gross
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2017-10-01
Schriftenreihe:International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
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Online Zugang:http://ijomeh.eu/The-association-between-rurality-and-return-to-work-for-workers-compensation-claimants,64359,0,2.html