Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 58, Issue 1 , Pages 75-82 , January 2005

In a controlled trial training general practitioners and occupational physicians to collaborate did not influence sickleave of patients with low back pain

  • E. Faber

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Expert Centre for Workrelated Musculoskeletal Disorders, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
    • Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +31 10 463 20 11; fax: +31 10 463 20 10.
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  • S.M.A. Bierma-Zeinstra

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • A. Burdorf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • A.P. Nauta

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Expert Centre for Workrelated Musculoskeletal Disorders, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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  • C.T.J. Hulshof

      Affiliations

    • SKB, Expert Centre for Work and Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • P.M. Overzier

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Expert Centre for Workrelated Musculoskeletal Disorders, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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  • H.S. Miedema

      Affiliations

    • Netherlands Expert Centre for Workrelated Musculoskeletal Disorders, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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  • B.W. Koes

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

,Accepted 20 April 2004.

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 This study was supported by the Health Care Insurance Board and the Associations of Academic Hospitals.

PII: S0895-4356(04)00232-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.04.015

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 58, Issue 1 , Pages 75-82 , January 2005

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