BACKGROUND Shoulder pain is common in primary care, and has an unfavourable outcome in many patients. Information about predictors of shoulder pain related sick leave in workers is scarce and inconsistent. The objective was to develop a clinical prediction rule for calculating the risk of shoulder pain related sick leave for individual workers, during the 6 months following first consultation i...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about influenza transmission in the workplace and whether staying home from work when experiencing influenza-like illness can reduce the spread of influenza is crucial for the design of efficient public health initiatives. AIM This review synthesizes current literature on sickness presenteeism and influenza transmission in the workplace and provides an overview of sick le...

Background: The USA is one of only a few advanced economies globally that does not guarantee its workers paid sick leave. While there are plausible reasons why paid sick leave may be linked to mortality, little is known empirically about this association. Methods: In a pooled USA nationally-representative longitudinal sample of 57,323 working adults aged 18-85 years from the National Health Int...

BACKGROUND Mortality as an endpoint has been the focus of trauma research whereas few studies investigate long-term outcomes in terms of morbidity. An adequate analysis of post-injury morbidity includes several dimensions, for this reason sick leave has been used as a proxy for morbidity in the current study. The aim of this retrospective matched observational cohort study was to investigate si...

Even if lumbar disc-herniation (LDH)-surgery is rather common, there little knowledge on future sick leave. The aim of this study was to explore risk factors for having many sick-leave days following surgery.

We describe the effect of influenza-like illness (ILI) during the outbreak of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 on health care worker (HCW) absenteeism and compare the effectiveness and cost of 2 sick leave policies for HCWs with suspected influenza. We assessed initial 2-day sick leaves plus reassessment until the HCW was asymptomatic (2-day + reassessment policy), and initial 7-day sick leaves (7-day poli...

OBJECTIVES A comparison of appraisals made by general practitioners (GPs) in France and occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs) in the Netherlands with those made by Scandinavian GPs on work capacity in patients with severe subjective health complaints (SHCs). SETTING GPs in France and OPs/IPs in the Netherlands gathered to watch nine authentic video recordings from a Nor...

BACKGROUND Sick-listed employees with low back pain had similar return to work (RTW) rates at one-year follow-up in a randomized trial comparing two interventions, but the effects were modified by specific workplace related factors. The present study addressed the sustainability of the intervention effects by performing a two-year follow-up and by using different outcome measures. METHODS A t...

Iiie regiment was stationed at Thayetmyo (Burma) from 1st January 1884? to 19th "January 1885. During tlii.s period there were 5 admissions for beri-beri. Recovered, 5 ; sent on sick leave, 3 ; death, 0. II. Madras from 27th January 1885 to 15th July 18SC, admissions for beri-beri, 5; recovered, 4; sick leave, 2; died, 1. III. Vijianagram from 19th July 1880 to December 1890, admissions for ber...