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.

2009

Espay AJ, Beaton DE, Morgante F, Gunraj CA, Lang AE, Chen R. Impairments of speed and amplitude of movement in Parkinson's disease: A pilot study. Movement Disorders. 2009;24(7):1001-1008. doi:10.1002/mds.22480.
Rabinovitch DL, Peliowski A, Furlan AD. Influence of lumbar epidural injection volume on pain relief for radicular leg pain and/or low back pain. Spine Journal. 2009;9(6):509-517. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2009.03.003.
Kosny A. Invisible workplaces and forgotten workers? A case study of occupational safety and health and workers' compensation coverage in Canadian non-profit organisations. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety. 2009;7(2):93-113.
Furlan AD, Pennick V. Limitations of guidelines for low back pain therapy. Nature Reviews Rheumatology. 2009;5(9):473-474. doi:10.1038/nrrheum.2009.172.
Akl EA, Briel M, You JJ, Lamontagne F, Gangji A, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Alshurafa M, Sun X, Nerenberg KA, Johnston BC, Vera C, Mills EJ, Bassler D, Salazar A, Bhatnagar N, Busse JW, Khalid Z, Walter SD, Cook DJ, Schunemann HJ, Altman DG, Guyatt GH. LOST to follow-up Information in Trials (LOST-IT): a protocol on the potential impact. Trials. 2009;10:40-. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-10-40.
Busse JW, Kaur J, Mollon B, Bhandari M, Tornetta P, Schunemann HJ, Guyatt GH. Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. British Medical Journal. 2009;338:b351-. doi:10.1136/bmj.b351.
Furlan AD, Imamura M, Dryden T, Irvin E. Massage for low back pain: an updated systematic review within the framework of the Cochrane Back Review Group. Spine. 2009;34(16):1669-1684. doi:10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ad7bd6.
Turner D, Griffiths AM, Steinhart AH, Otley AR, Beaton DE. Mathematical weighting of a clinimetric index (Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index) was superior to the judgmental approach. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2009;62(7):738-744. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.09.008.
Cadarette SM, Gignac MA, Jaglal SB, Beaton DE, Hawker GA. Measuring patient perceptions about osteoporosis pharmacotherapy. BMC Research Notes. 2009;2(133):. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-133.
Beaton DE, Bombardier C, Escorpizo R, Zhang W, Lacaille D, Boonen A, Osborne RH, Anis AH, Strand V, Tugwell P. Measuring worker productivity: frameworks and measures. Journal of Rheumatology. 2009;36(9):2100-2109. doi:10.3899/jrheum.090366.
Amick B, Brewer S, Tullar J, Van Eerd D, Cole DC, Tompa E. Musculoskeletal disorders: examining best practices for prevention. Professional Safety. 2009;54(3):24-28.
Busse JW, Guyatt GH. Optimizing the use of patient data to improve outcomes for patients: narcotics for chronic noncancer pain. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 2009;9(2):171-179. doi:10.1586/erp.09.7.
Novak CB, Anastakis DJ, Beaton DE, Katz J. Patient-reported outcome after peripheral nerve injury. Journal of Hand Surgery - American Volume. 2009;34(2):281-287. doi:10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.11.017.
Franche RL, Severin C, Lee H, Hogg-Johnson S, Hepburn CG, Vidmar M, MacEachen E. Perceived justice of compensation process for return-to-work: development and validation of a scale. Psychological Injury and Law. 2009;2(3):225-237. doi:10.1007/s12207-009-9053-4.
Stallones L, Vela Acosta MS, Sample P, Bigelow P, Rosales M. Perspectives on safety and health among migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States and Mexico: a qualitative field study. Journal of Rural Health. 2009;25(2):219-225. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0361.2009.00221.x.
Busse JW, Obremskey WT. Principles of designing an orthopaedic case-control study. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume. 2009;91(0):15-20.
Busse JW, Montori VM, Krasnik C, Patelis-Siotis I, Guyatt GH. Psychological intervention for premenstrual syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2009;78:42901. doi:10.1159/000162296.
Beaton DE, Clark JP. Qualitative research: a review of methods with use of examples from the total knee replacement literature. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery - American Volume. 2009;91(0):107-112. doi:10.2106/JBJS.H.01631.
Comondore VR, Devereaux PJ, Zhou Q, Stone SB, Busse JW, Ravindran NC, Burns KE, Haines T, Stringer B, Cook DJ, Walter SD, Sullivan TJ, Berwanger O, Bhandari M, Banglawala S, Lavis JN, Petrisor B, Schunemann HJ, Walsh K, Bhatnagar N, Guyatt GH. Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis. British Medical Journal. 2009;339:b2732-. doi:10.1136/bmj.b2732.
van der Velde G, Beaton DE, Hogg-Johnson S, Hurwitz EL, Tennant A. Rasch analysis provides new insights into the measurement properties of the neck disability index. Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2009;61(4):544-551. doi:10.1002/art.24399.
Smith PM, Beaton DE. Re: 'Changes in perceived job strain and the risk of major depression: results from a population-based longitudinal study' [Letter to the editor]. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009;170(1):131-132. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp147.
Cole DC, Theberge N, Dixon SM, Rivilis I, Neumann WP, Wells R. Reflecting on a program of participatory ergonomics interventions: a multiple case study. Work. 2009;34(2):161-178. doi:10.3233/WOR-2009-0914.
Cole DC, Koehoorn M, Ibrahim S, Hertzman C, Ostry A, Xu F, Brown P. Regions, hospitals and health outcomes over time: a multi-level analysis of repeat prevalence among a cohort of health-care workers. Health & Place. 2009;15(4):1046-1057. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.05.004.
Tolusso D, Cook RJ. Robust estimation of state occupancy probabilities for interval-censored multistate data: an application involving spondylitis in psoriatic arthritis. Communications in Statistics - Theory & Methods. 2009;38(18):3307-3325. doi:10.1080/03610920902948236.
Cook RJ, Tolusso D. Second-order estimating equations for the analysis of clustered current status data. Biostatistics (Oxford, England). 2009;10(4):756-772. doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxp029.