Journal articles

This database lists peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters that include an Institute for Work & Health (IWH) scientist or researcher (past or present) as an author. Clicking any title will allow you to view a detailed citation and, if available, an abstract. For journal articles by IWH and non-IWH researchers in the areas of occupational health and safety, return to work, workers' compensation, public health and others within the IWH mandate, see our Research Alerts.

2011

Brouwer S, Franche RL, Hogg-Johnson S, Lee H, Krause N, Shaw W. Return-to-Work Self-Efficacy: Development and Validation of a Scale in Claimants with Musculoskeletal Disorders. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 2011;21(1):244-258. doi:10.1007/s10926-010-9262-4.
Tang K, MacDermid JC, Amick B, Beaton DE. The 11-item workplace organizational policies and practices questionnaire (OPP-11): examination of its construct validity, factor structure, and predictive validity in injured workers with upper-limb disorders. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2011;54(11):834-846. doi:10.1002/ajim.20994.
Van Eerd D, Cote P, Kristman VL, Rezai M, Hogg-Johnson S, Vidmar M, Beaton DE. The course of work absenteeism involving neck pain. A cohort study of Ontario lost-time claimants. Spine. 2011;36(12):977-982. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181e9b831.
Scott-Marshall H, Tompa E. The health consequences of precarious employment experiences. Work. 2011;38(4):369-382. doi:10.3233/WOR-2011-1140.
Dijkman BG, Busse JW, Walter SD, Bhandari M, Trust TI. The impact of clinical data on the evaluation of tibial fracture healing. Trials. 2011;12(1):237-. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-12-237.
Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, You JJ, Akl EA, Mejza F, Bala MM, Bassler D, Mertz D, Diaz-Granados N, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Srinathan SK, Dahm P, Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, Hassouneh B, Truong J, Dattani ND, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell D, Bhatnagar N, Altman DG, Guyatt GH. The influence of study characteristics on reporting of subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: systematic review. British Medical Journal. 2011;342:d1569-. doi:10.1136/bmj.d1569.
Daraz L, MacDermid JC, Wilkins S, Gibson J, Shaw L. The quality of websites addressing fibromyalgia: an assessment of quality and readability using standardised tools. BMJ Open. 2011;42743. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000152.
Kosny A, MacEachen E, Ferrier S, Chambers L. The role of health care providers in long term and complicated workers' compensation claims. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 2011;21(4):582-590. doi:10.1007/s10926-011-9307-3.
Tjulin A, MacEachen E, Stiwne EE, Ekberg K. The social interaction of return to work explored from co-workers experiences. Disability and Rehabilitation. 2011;33(21):1979-1989. doi:10.3109/09638288.2011.553708.
Davis AM, Perruccio AV, Ibrahim S, Hogg-Johnson S, Wong R, Streiner DL, Beaton DE, Cote P, Gignac MA, Flannery J, Schemitsch E, Mahomed NN, Badley EM. The trajectory of recovery and the inter-relationships of symptoms, activity and participation in the first year following total hip and knee replacement. Osteoarthritis and cartilage / OARS, Osteoarthritis Research Society. 2011;19(12):1413-1421. doi:10.1016/j.joca.2011.08.007.
Machado PM, Koevoets R, Bombardier C, van der Heijde D. The value of magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound in undifferentiated arthritis: a systematic review. Journal of Rheumatology. 2011;87(0):31-37. doi:10.3899/jrheum.101072.
Jamal S, Alibhai SM, Badley EM, Bombardier C. Time to treatment for new patients with rheumatoid arthritis in a major metropolitan city. Journal of Rheumatology. 2011;38(7):1282-1288. doi:10.3899/jrheum.101315.
Griffith LE, Wells R, Shannon HS, Walter SD, Cole DC, Cote P, Frank JW, Hogg-Johnson S, Langlois LE. Translation of mechanical exposure in the workplace into common metrics for meta-analysis: a reliability and validity study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;68(8):605-610. doi:10.3899/jrheum.101315.
Smith PM, Chen C, Hogg-Johnson S, Mustard C, Tompa E. Trends in the health care use and expenditures associated with no-lost-time claims in Ontario: 1991 to 2006. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;53(2):211-217. doi:10.1097/JOM.0b013e31820a416f.
Moore I, Tompa E. Understanding changes over time in workers' compensation claim rates using time series analytical techniques. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;68(11):837-841. doi:10.1136/oem.2010.055913.
Ayeni OR, Busse JW, Bhandari M. Using extracorporeal shock-wave therapy for healing long-bone nonunions. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 2011;21(1):74-75. doi:10.1097/01.jsm.0000393479.96218.d7.
Roy JS, MacDermid JC, Amick B, Shannon HS, McMurtry R, Roth JH, Grewal R, Tang K, Beaton DE. Validity and responsiveness of presenteeism scales in chronic work-related upper-extremity disorders. Physical Therapy. 2011;91(2):254-266. doi:10.2522/ptj.20090274.
Kosny A. Work in nonprofit organizations - the effects on worker health. In: Langan-Fox J, Cooper CL, editors. Handbook of stress in the occupations. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing; 2011.

2010

Breslin FC, Smith PM. A commentary on the unique developmental considerations of youth: integrating the teenage cortex into the occupational health and safety context [commentaries]. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2010;16(2):225-229.
Swift M. A simulation study comparing methods for calculating confidence intervals for directly standardized rates. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 2010;54(4):1103-1108.
Tompa E, Dolinschi R, de Oliveira C, Amick B, Irvin E. A systematic review of workplace ergonomic interventions with economic analyses. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 2010;20(2):220-234. doi:10.1007/s10926-009-9210-3.
Wijeysundera HC, Machado M, Farahati F, Wang X, Witteman W, van der Velde G, Tu JV, Lee DS, Goodman SG, Petrella R, O'Flaherty M, Krahn M, Capewell S. Association of temporal trends in risk factors and treatment uptake with coronary heart disease mortality, 1994-2005. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2010;303(18):1841-1847. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.580.
Mustard C, Bielecky A, Etches J, Wilkins R, Tjepkema M, Amick B, Smith PM, Aronson KJ. Avoidable mortality for causes amenable to medical care, by occupation in Canada, 1991-2001. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 2010;101(6):500-506.
Waseem Z, Boulias C, Gordon A, Ismail F, Furlan AD. Botulinum toxin for low-back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010;Art-. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD008257.
Katchamart W, Bourre-Tessier J, Donka T, Drouin J, Rohekar G, Bykerk VP, Haraoui B, Leclerq S, Mosher DP, Pope JE, Shojania K, Thomson J, Thorne JC, Bombardier C. Canadian recommendations for use of methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of Rheumatology. 2010;37(7):1422-1430. doi:10.3899/jrheum.090978.