A randomized controlled trial of a Return-to-Work Coordinator model of care in a general hospital to facilitate return to work of injured workers

Abstract

The addition of a RTWC into the hospital model of care is effective in facilitating early RTW for injured workers. This could be a potential model of care for injured workers in Asian countries where work injury management policies are not yet established.

A scoping review to ascertain the parameters for an evidence synthesis of psychological interventions to improve work and wellbeing outcomes among employees with chronic pain

“…psychoeducation. Other interventions more generally reported the use of psychological and/or behavioural principles (27.5% of studies) (Becker, Angerer, Weber, & Muller, 2020 ; Beemster, van Bennekom, van Velzen, Frings-Dresen, & Reneman, 2020 ; Bergstrom, Bergstrom, Hagberg, Bodin, & Jensen, 2010 ; Bramberg, Bergstrom, Jensen, Hagberg, & Kwak, 2017 ; Brendbekken et al, 2017 ; Brendbekken, Vaktskjold, Harris, & Tangen, 2018 ; Brox et al, 2010 ; Caby et al, 2016 ; Hammond et al, 2017 ; Hampel & Tlach, 2015 ; Hardison & Roll, 2017 ; Hartfiel et al, 2017 ; Hutting et al, 2015 ; Law et al, 2016 ; Lebon, Rongières, Apredoaei, & Delclaux, 2017 ; Lindholdt et al, 2017 ; McCubbin et al, 2014 ; Sandsjo et al, 2010 ; Sullivan & Simon, 2012 ; Sullivan & Adams, 2010 ; Sullivan, Adams, & Ellis, 2012 ; Tan et al, 2016 ; van Vilsteren et al, 2017a ; van Vilsteren et al, 2017b ; Westman et al, 2010 ) ( Table 2 ).…”

“…General health outcomes were also common ( Table 3 ). These were measured, for example, using health-related quality of life measures, such as the SF-36 (Angst et al, 2014 ; Bethge et al, 2011 ; Calner et al, 2017 ; Gross et al, 2017 ; Howard et al, 2012 ; Jensen et al, 2011 ; Jensen et al, 2012b ; Knapp et al, 2015 ; Kold et al, 2012 ; McCubbin et al, 2014 ; Mochari-Greenberger et al, 2020 ; Tan et al, 2016 ; Westman et al, 2010 ). Table 3 also indicates that some outcomes were less commonly measured.…”

“…Table 4 shows that of the 10% sample of papers coded (Bramberg et al, 2017 ; Gross et al, 2017 ; Hara, Bjørngaard, Jacobsen et al, 2018 ; Jensen et al 2012a ; Linton et al, 2016 ; Sjöström et al, 2013 ; Sorensen et al, 2010 ; Tan et al, 2016 ; van Vilsteren et al, 2017b ) the majority met the minimum criteria of containing at least one paragraph of intervention description, with an additional paper also providing a link to further resources. Therefore, as 89% of the sample met the pre-established criteria (50% at Level 2 or better) it can be concluded that it is possible to conduct a meaningful behavioural analysis of the intervention descriptions.…”

“…Of the remaining 54% of studies containing a control group, 61% of them ( Berglund et al, 2018;Bergström et al, 2012;Busch et al, 2011;Busch et al, 2018;Campello et al, 2012;Chaléat-Valayer et al, 2016;Frederiksen et al, 2017;Hara, Bjørngaard, Brage et al, 2018;Hartfiel et al, 2017;Hutting et al, 2015;Irvine et al, 2015;Jensen et al, 2012b;Lambeek et al, 2010;Law et al, 2016;Linton et al, 2016;Nguyen et al, 2017;Odeen et al, 2013;Rantonen et al, 2012;Rantonen et al, 2014;Rantonen et al, 2018;Rasmussen et al, 2016;Ree et al, 2016;Sander et al, 2020;Sandsjo et al, 2010;Soler-Font et al, 2019;van Vilsteren et al, 2017a;van Vilsteren et al, 2017b;Werner et al, 2016;Westman et al, 2010). Tan et al (2016) overtly reported 'no intervention' or 'usual' or 'standard' care, although frequently little detail was provided on what 'usual care' consisted of the remaining studies (39%) reported a specific control condition (Andersen et al, 2015(Andersen et al, , 2016Becker et al, 2020;Bethge et al, 2011;Bramberg et al, 2017;Brendbekken et al, 2017;Brendbekken et al, 2018;Brox et al, 2010;...…”

Measuring socioeconomic outcomes in trauma patients up to one year post-discharge: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…There were nine studies that reported on RTW as the number of days take off, with five that reported on it as a mean with standard deviation. Of these five (48,62,(64)(65)(66), one study (48) measured the outcome at two time points and another (62) reported on two groups of patients. The pooled estimate of effect size was 102.3 (95% CI 29.7,174.9) (I 2 = 99.8%); i.e., participants in the included studies took a mean of 102.3 days or around 3.5 months postdischarge to return to work.…”