Return-to-work practices
At Work articles
- Exploring complex issues to find return-to-work answers (Winter 2010)
- In Focus: The wide reach of IWH research (Fall 2009)
- Research to action: IWH guide helps solve RTW problems (Summer 2009)
- RTW program for workers with low-back pain (Summer 2009)
- Workplace program speeds return of workers with low-back injuries (Summer 2009)
- IWH disability benchmarking partnership helps workplaces improve outcomes, reduce costs (Spring 2009)
- Mental health and injured workers: Depressive symptoms linked to delayed work-returns (Spring 2009)
- Training program attracts work and health researchers (Summer 2007)
- Benchmarks help firms compare disability management practices (Spring 2007)
Sharing Best Evidence
Research highlights
- An approach to developing a return-to-work program (2009)
- Co-workers play important, but sometimes “invisible” role in RTW (2009)
- Older, previously ill workers benefit most from RTW program (2009)
- Study finds three groups of workers with low-back pain (2009)
- Workplace factors affect return-to-work accommodations (2009)
- When a “hurt” becomes a “harm” in return to work (2008)
- Disability management programs differ greatly in Ontario health-care sector (2007)
- First return to work after injury doesn't always mean full recovery (2007)
- Injured worker peer groups shed light on improving return to work (2007)
- Two key strategies are critical for return-to-work programs (2007)
- Workplace program speeds up return to work (2007)
Media releases
Current projects
- A tool kit for persistent compensation claims (#253)
- Client experiences with Labour Market Re-Entry (#247)
- Evaluating employers' costs in return to work (#172)
- Injury prevention and return to work in temporary work agencies (#1125)
- Managing workers’ mental health conditions (#1100)
- Predicting the duration of work disability (#2150)
- Training initiatives in work disability prevention (#144)
- Understanding the recurrence of work absence (#341)
Journal articles
Validation of a Risk Factor-Based Intervention Strategy Model Using Data from the Readiness for Return to Work Cohort Study. J Occup Rehab. 2009:[epub]. Abstract
A multivariate analysis of factors associated with early offer and acceptance of a work accommodation following an occupational musculoskeletal injury. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2009;51(8):969-83. Abstract
Course, diagnosis, and treatment of depressive symptomatology in workers following a workplace injury: a prospective cohort study. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;54(8):534-46. Abstract
Designing a workplace return-to-work program for occupational low back pain: an intervention mapping approach. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2009;10:65. Abstract
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