Step-downs reduce workers’ compensation payments to encourage return to work: are they effective?
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1351-0711,1470-7926
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2019-106325