Y pull into the hospital parking lot just before dawn — one of the first cars in, one of the last out. As a first-year resident, you make up in hours what you lack in experience. You speedwalk to the hospital’s back entrance through the January fog. You wonder if you left the iron on in your apartment. No matter how often you iron and bleach your white coat, it never looks or feels clean. You n...

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BACKGROUND Despite a considerable increase in claims for long-term sickness benefits, and the impact of certifying sickness upon general practitioner (GP) workload, little is known about transition to long-term incapacity for work. AIM To explore the relationship between patient factors and the transition from short-term to long-term work incapacity, in particular focusing on mild mental heal...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a questionnaire on sickness absence due to back pain and respiratory disorders with the view of using sickness absence as a measure of morbidity. METHODS A cross sectional survey was conducted among 511 male workers aged 20-65, drawn from the personnel register of an animal feed mill. The response was 404 (79%) participants. Data on sickness absence in...

This study examines predictors of sickness absence in patients presenting to a health practitioner with acute/ subacute low back pain (LBP). Aims of this study were to identify baseline-variables that detect patients with a new LBP episode at risk of sickness absence and to identify prognostic models for sickness absence at different time points after initial presentation. Prospective cohort st...

There has been an increased dependence on prescription drugs for psychological and mood disorders in the last few decades. Many women who take these drugs may become pregnant and not be aware of their possible adverse effects. Since thalidomide, a drug used to treat morning sickness in pregnancy, was found to be teratogenic, many drugs are being screened more stringently for possible teratogeni...

Sickness absence, or as it can be defined more precisely, absence from work that is attributed to sickness by the employee and accepted as such by the employer, remains high on the agenda for governments in the European Union (EU). Over the last decade most EU governments have implemented legislation that changes social security payments for the initial period of sickness absence. This has had ...

introduction it has long been known that ionizing radiation can lead to detrimental effects in normal cells. in this light, radioprotective chemicals have been used to decrease morbidity or mortality caused by ionizing irradiation. this study aimed to evaluate the radio-protective effect of n-acetylcysteineagainst radiation-induced mortality in male mice. materials and methods 52 healthy male m...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of absenteeism in patients with psoriasis and determine the factors influencing the incidence of absenteeism in these patients. methods: a cross-sectional study from december 2012 to november of 2013 was conducted on 192 psoriasis patients referred to the dermatology clinic of imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran. the number day of ...