Trial reportJournal of occupational rehabilitation2009
Coordinated and tailored work rehabilitation: a randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation undertaken with workers on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders.
Trial report in Journal of occupational rehabilitation, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of the Participatory Approach on Return-to-Work of Sick-Listed Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Models of care for managing non-specific low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of work-related interventions for return to work in people on sick leave: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for subacute low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Return-to-work coordination programmes for improving return to work in workers on sick leave.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Workplace interventions to prevent work disability in workers on sick leave.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for chronic low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Physical conditioning as part of a return to work strategy to reduce sickness absence for workers with back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Intervention characteristics that facilitate return to work after sickness absence: a systematic literature review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2012Pooled it
- Effectiveness of community- and workplace-based interventions to manage musculoskeletal-related sickness absence and job loss: a systematic review.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2012Pooled it
- Return to work coordination programmes for work disability: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.PloS one · 2012Pooled it
- A systematic review of functioning in vocational rehabilitation using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2011Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for neck pain in workers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Costing Methodology and Key Drivers of Health Care Costs Within Economic Analyses in Musculoskeletal Community and Primary Care Services: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of primary care & community healthPooled it
- Two-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial of Inpatient Multimodal Occupational Rehabilitation Vs Outpatient Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Sick Listed Workers with Musculoskeletal or Common Mental Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Trial
- Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Trial
- Effectiveness of adding a workplace intervention to an inpatient multimodal occupational rehabilitation program: A randomized clinical trial.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2020Trial
- Structured physiotherapy including a work place intervention for patients with neck and/or back pain in primary care: an economic evaluation.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2019Trial
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Abstract
introductionIn Denmark, the magnitude and impact of work disability on the individual worker and society has prompted the development of a new "coordinated and tailored work rehabilitation" (CTWR) approach. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of CTWR with conventional case management (CCM) on return-to-work of workers on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
methodsThe study was a randomized controlled trial with economic evaluation undertaken with workers on sick leave for 4-12 weeks due to MSDs. CTWR consists of a work disability screening by an interdisciplinary team followed by the collaborative development of a RTW plan. The primary outcome variable was registered cumulative sickness absence hours during 12 months follow-up. Secondary outcomes were work status as well as pain intensity and functional disability, measured at baseline, 3 and 12 months follow-up. The economic evaluation (intervention costs, productivity loss, and health care utilization costs) was based on administrative data derived from national registries.
resultsFor the time intervals 0-6 months, 6-12 months, and the entire follow-up period, the number of sickness absence hours was significantly lower in the CTWR group as compared to the control group. The total costs saved in CTWR participants compared to controls were estimated at US $ 1,366 per person at 6 months follow-up and US $ 10,666 per person at 12 months follow-up.
conclusionsWorkers on sick leave for 4-12 weeks due to MSD who underwent "CTWR" by an interdisciplinary team had fewer sickness absence hours than controls. The economic evaluation showed that-in terms of productivity loss-CTWR seems to be cost saving for the society.
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