Health-care sector
IWH research that specifically involves health-care workplaces, workers, unions, employers and/or associations, as well as research on programs that specifically target the health-care sector, is collected together here. Not included here is IWH research that cuts across all or many sectors, even though it may be relevant to the health-care sector. For this reason, visitors are encouraged to explore beyond this page to find equally important information on the prevention of work injury and disability in health care.
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Primary care physicians’ learning needs in returning ill or injured workers to work
While primary care physicians play an important role in helping ill and injured workers return to work (RTW), they have a variety of learning needs about how to best navigate the RTW process. These needs fall in the areas of completing administrative tasks, challenging personal beliefs, understandin
Published: July 26, 2023
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More than just COVID-19 prevention: Exploring the links between PPE, safe work protocols and workers' mental health
Published: November 10, 2020
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Clinical tools to assess functional capacity during risk assessment before elective noncardiac surgery : a scoping review
Published: Annals of Internal Medicine, November 2024
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Joint models inform the longitudinal assessment of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: a simulation study and secondary analysis of the restrictive vs. liberal fluid therapy for major abdominal surgery (RELIEF) randomized controlled trial
Published: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, October 2024
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"It means almost forgetting that you've got a disease": an OMERACT study to define independence in the context of rheumatoid arthritis remission from the patient perspective
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, August 2024
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Outcome clusters and their stability over 1 year in patients with SLE: self-reported and performance-based cognitive function, disease activity, mood and health-related quality of life
Published: Lupus Science & Medicine, July 2024
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"Keep trying": a qualitative investigation into what patients with chronic pain gain from Project ECHO
Published: SAGE Open Medicine, May 2024
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Factors contributing to increased workplace violence against nurses during COVID-19 in the healthcare settings of a lower middle-income country: a qualitative study
Published: Asian Nursing Research, April 2024
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A retrospective cohort analysis of mental health-related emergency department visits among veterans and non-veterans residing in Ontario, Canada
Published: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, January 2024
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Developing a core outcome set for foot and ankle disorders in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: a scoping review and report from the OMERACT 2022 foot and ankle special interest group session
Published: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, August 2023
Research Highlights
Primary care physicians’ learning needs in returning ill or injured workers to work
While primary care physicians play an important role in helping ill and injured workers return to work (RTW), they have a variety of learning needs about how to best navigate the RTW process. These needs fall in the areas of completing administrative tasks, challenging personal beliefs, understanding specific RTW issues and learning about available RTW services and tools.
Published: July 2023
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Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: the role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes
Published: General Hospital Psychiatry, July 2023