| Description |
xviii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Why staying at work or returning to work is in the patient's best interest / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark Hyman -- How to think about work ability and work restrictions : risk, capacity, and tolerance / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark Hyman -- How to negotiate return to work / J. Mark Melhorn and James R. Rainville -- Return to work: forms, records, and disclaimers / J. Mark Melhorn and Mark H. Hyman -- Evidence-based medicine and causal analysis / J. Mark Melhorn, Kurt T. Hegmann, and Elizabeth Genovese (posthumous) -- Functional capacity evaluation in return-to-work decision making: risk, capacity, and tolerance / Douglas P. Gross and Michiel F. Reneman -- The medical and legal aspects of return-to-work decision making / David J. Depaolo -- Disability determinations and return to work / Les Kertay -- Medications, driving, and work / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark H. Hyman -- The challenges to and importance of the primary care physician's role in return to work / Douglas Martin -- Working with common spine problems / Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach -- Working with common upper extremity problems / J. Mark Melhorn and Shirley M. Seaman -- Working with common lower extremity problems / Randy Lea -- Working with common cardiovascular problems / Mark H. Hyman, Jawali Jaranilla, and Thomas E. Kottke -- Working with common pulmonary problems / Mark H. Hyman and Philip Harber -- Working with common neurologic problems / Edwin H. Klimek -- Working with common rheumatologic problems -- Working with common gastrointestinal problems / Cynthia Ko -- Urologic disease Christopher / J. Welty, Michael Porter -- Working during pregnancy / Anjel Vahratian -- Hematology/oncology / Michael Feuerstein and Gina Bruns -- Working with common psychiatric problems -- Working with common functional syndromes : fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome / James B. Talmage -- International perspectives on return to work / Dwight Dowda, Clement Leech, Karen Belkic |
| Summary |
"This book will help the reader think through helping patients with return-to-work decisions when persisting symptoms and problems from illness or injury make work difficult"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Rev. ed. of: A physician's guide to return to work / editors, James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn. c2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Convalescence -- Psychological aspects.
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Disability evaluation -- United States.
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Vocational rehabilitation -- United States.
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Work capacity evaluation -- United States.
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Work -- Psychological aspects.
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Workers' compensation -- United States.
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Rehabilitation -- psychology.
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Convalescence -- psychology.
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Disability Evaluation.
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Employment -- psychology.
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| Author |
Hyman, Mark H.
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Melhorn, J. Mark.
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Talmage, James B.
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American Medical Association.
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| LC no. |
2011010018 |
| ISBN |
1603595309 (paperback) |
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9781603595308 (paperback) |
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