Certified sickness absence: does the ‘fit-note’ work?
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Doctors' prediction of certified sickness absence.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1351-0711,1470-7926
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102685