Work disability associated with cancer survivorship and other chronic conditions

Absence from school related to cancer and other chronic conditions.

Absence from school during the first year after starting major treatment for cancer or chronic or orthopaedic conditions was examined. Retrospective data were collected on 72 children and obtained from hospital records, school registers, and interviews with parents and teachers. Median initial absences caused by treatment were 91, 29-5, and 15 days for cancer, chronic, and orthopaedic patients ...

Acute conditions; incidence and associated disability.

Cancer Survivorship & Chronic Care Roundtable Meeting Summary

Population attributable risk for functional disability associated with chronic conditions in Canadian older adults.

OBJECTIVES to investigate the population impact on functional disability of chronic conditions individually and in combination. METHODS data from 9,008 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) were used to estimate the population attributable risk (PAR) for chronic conditions after adjusting for confounding variables. Functional disab...

Is work disability associated with systemic lupus erythematosus modifiable?