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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"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
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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
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Centrally acting ACE inhibitor (cACEi) and angiotensin receptor blocker (cARB) use and cognitive dysfunction in patients with SLE
Published: Lupus Science & Medicine, July 2023
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Updating the know your chances website to include smoking status as a risk factor for mortality estimates
Published: JAMA Network Open, June 2023
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Psychometric testing of the British English Workplace Activity Limitations Scale in four rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions
Published: Rheumatology Advances in Practice, March 2023
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Post-switch effectiveness of etanercept biosimilar versus continued etanercept in rheumatoid arthritis patients with stable disease: a prospective multinational observational study
Published: Advances in Therapy, October 2022