2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Despite the growing recognition that work can contribute to the
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development of musculoskeletal disorders,(1,8) there are almost no data
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on whether and how physicians investigate the contribution of work to
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patients'' health status or the influence of health status on work
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performance. This is particularly true of primary care, where much of
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the medical care for patients with work-related low back pain is
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provided.(51) As more patients with musculoskeletal injuries show up in
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primary care settings, it will become important to document
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health-related work outcomes and incorporate into practice outcome tools
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that enable the physician to obtain a quick and accurate accounting of
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needed information about patients'' work.
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Health-related work outcomes relate to a person''s labor market status:
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Is a person working or not working? How well is he or she working? Did
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the person return to a job of pay and skill comparable to the preinjury
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job? Outcomes can incorporate time: How long has a person been out of
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work? How many hours, days, or weeks has a person been reported absent?
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Is the person working full- or part-time? How many hours does the person
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perform at full effectiveness? Finally, health-related work outcomes can
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capture the interplay between a person''s health status and work role
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performance: How difficult is it for a person with a given health status
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to perform work activities? Typically, health-related work outcomes have
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not specifically referred to unpaid work activities, such as volunteer
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work or household labor. The authors support the importance of capturing
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both paid and unpaid work outcomes, but in this article, paid work is
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the focus.
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Multiple publications in the literature contribute conceptually and
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methodologically to the health-related work outcomes field. These range
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from industrial psychology and labor economics to health services
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research, epidemiology, and pharmacoeconomics. In this paper, a window
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into health-related work outcomes research is created by considering the
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reasons for measuring these outcomes and briefly reviewing and
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illustrating several classes of measures. The advantages and limitations
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of each measure will be discussed, as the authors draw examples from own
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work. Although prior work has focused on upper extremity musculoskeletal
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disorders, the general principles for using health-related work outcomes
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are similar for researchers studying back injuries and disorders. In
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addition, a new work-related health outcome tool for measuring
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successful return to work (RTW) is discussed to illustrate a new class
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of measures, Hereafter, health-related work outcomes as are referred to
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as work outcomes.'
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affiliation: 'Amick, BC (Corresponding Author), Univ Texas, Hlth Sci Ctr, Sch Publ
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Hlth, Suite E909,POB 20186, Houston, TX 77225 USA.
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Univ Texas, Hlth Sci Ctr, Sch Publ Hlth, Houston, TX 77225 USA.
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Inst Work \& Hlth, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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New England Med Ctr, Div Clin Care Res, Hlth Inst, Boston, MA 02111 USA.
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Tufts Sch Med, Boston, MA USA.
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Hlth \& Work Outcomes, Brunswick, ME USA.
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Robert B Brigham Multipurpose Arthrit \& Musculosk, Boston, MA USA.
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Brigham \& Womens Hosp, Div Rheumatol Immunol \& Allergy, Boston, MA 02115 USA.'
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author: Amick, BC and Lerner, D and Rogers, WH and Rooney, T and Katz, JN
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author_list:
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- family: Amick
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given: BC
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- family: Lerner
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given: D
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- family: Rogers
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given: WH
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- family: Rooney
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given: T
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- family: Katz
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given: JN
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1097/00007632-200012150-00010
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files: []
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issn: 0362-2436
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journal: SPINE
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keywords-plus: 'LOW-BACK-PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS; INTERVENTION PROGRAM;
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DISABILITY; MANAGEMENT; EMPLOYEES; VALIDITY; TRIAL; CARE'
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language: English
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month: DEC 15
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number: '24'
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number-of-cited-references: '55'
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orcid-numbers: Lerner, Debra/0000-0001-7749-1387
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pages: 3152-3160
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papis_id: f2a61bc0abf70f7ca01ac51d2767aadc
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ref: Amick2000reviewhealthrelated
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researcherid-numbers: Lerner, Debra/GZK-6184-2022
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times-cited: '164'
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title: A review of health-related work outcome measures and their uses, and recommended
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measures
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000166243700009
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '16'
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volume: '25'
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web-of-science-categories: Clinical Neurology; Orthopedics
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year: '2000'
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