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13. Multiple sclerosis in Australia: socioeconomic factors.
The data from an epidemiological study on multiple sclerosis in Australia have been analysed to determine the relation between the prevalence of the disease and educational level, and the association between level of disability and employment status. There was a significantly higher frequency of multiple sclerosis in those who left school at an older age and
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14. Psychiatric Disability and Employment: I.Survey of 222 Registered Disabled Persons
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15. Psychiatric Disability and Employment: II.Follow-Up of 95 Unemployed Subjects
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16. The surgical treatment of cervical myelopathy due to spondylosis and disc degeneration.
A personal prospective study of the surgical treatment of cervical myelopathy due to spondylosis and disc protrusion is presented. One hundred and thirty-seven patients with severe disability have undergone surgery according to a protocol involving both the anterior approach of Cloward and decompressive laminectomy. Fifty-two percent of patients have returne
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17. What are the effects of anti‐discriminatory legislation on socioeconomic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability?
BMJ Group.
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18. Burden of disability in a post war birth cohort in the UK.
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To report the prevalence of physical disability in a national sample of 43 year old men and women, and examine the relationship between disability and the consumption of hospital care. To assess the contribution of childhood health and social circumstances to the risk of adult disability, and the socioeconomic consequences of disability. DES
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19. Work disability in early rheumatoid arthritis.
OBJECTIVE--To assess the impact of early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on work status. METHODS--The employment status of 119 patients who had jobs before the onset of RA was examined. Patients with work disability were compared with those without, for several disease characteristics, therapeutic regimen, and educational level and age. RESULTS--Sixty two percent
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20. Psychosocial outcome for the survivors of severe blunt head injury: the results from a consecutive series of 100 patients.
A consecutive series of 100 severely blunt head injured subjects was followed up six years after trauma and the level of psychosocial reintegration was determined for 87 subjects. Three-quarters of the series were classified as demonstrating major disability, having either a Poor Reintegration (33%) or a Substantially Limited Reintegration (43%); the remaini
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21. Work related upper limb disorder: the relationship between pain, cumulative load, disability, and psychological factors.
Repetitive strain injury, or work related upper limb disorder, provides an interesting paradigm for the study of the relative contribution of physical and psychological factors to the resulting pain and disability. Sixty three subjects were studied, comprising the work-force of a subsection of a large local industrial company, in whom pain in the arm related
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22. Alveolar proteinosis: diagnosis and treatment over a 10-year period.
Ten years' experience of using bronchoalveolar lavage in the treatment of 10 patients with alveolar proteinosis is reported. The diagnosis was often missed. The interval between onset of symptoms and diagnosis varied from six weeks to six years (median 2 years), so that the start of treatment was often delayed. Some patients experienced severe progressive di
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23. Ventilatory function after exposure to various respirable hazards in a population of former coal miners.
The ventilatory function of 406 male former coal miners who had presented at the Cook County Hospital occupational medicine clinic between January 1976 and April 1987 was studied to determine whether subsequent exposure to respiratory hazards after leaving the coal mines adversely affected lung function. The miners were divided into five exposure groups base
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24. Policy-Relevant Research: When Does It Matter?
Summary: Evidence-based medicine is most meaningful to policy makers when research questions are clearly informed by strategic health policy questions. In Washington State workers’ compensation, key structural characteristics allow for the conduct of effective policy-relevant research. These include clear authority and a stable funding stream, a formal rel
The American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics.