Motivating disability pensioners with back pain to return to work - a randomized controlled trial
Acta Dermato VenereologicaPublished 1 January 2007Open access
Lesley Magnussen, LI Strand, JS Skouen, HR Eriksen
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The effort of returning disability pensioners to work by a brief vocational-oriented intervention may be of clinical relevance and the effect needs to be explored further in larger samples of disabled pensioners.
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The effort of returning disability pensioners to work by a brief vocational-oriented intervention may be of clinical relevance. The effect needs to be explored further in larger samples of disability pensioners.
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