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Occupational-class trends in diagnosis-specific sickness absence in Finland: a register-based observational study in 2011–2021

BMJ Open
Objectives To examine the prevalence and days of long-term sickness absence (LTSA) by occupational class and by most important diagnostic groups in Finland during 2011–2021.Design Population-based cross-sectional study.Setting and participants National ...
Jenni Blomgren, Riku Perhoniemi
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Development and Validation of a Practical Instrument for Injury Prevention: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT)

Safety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT) is a practical instrument that is currently used in the German woodworking and metalworking industries to monitor safety conditions at workplaces. The 12-item scoring
Yi Sun, Martin Arning, Frank Bochmann, Jutta Börger, Thomas Heitmann   +4 more
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Second-line pharmacotherapy intensification after metformin monotherapy in type 2 diabetes: a nationwide register study from Finland during 2011–2022

BMC Health Services Research
Background In this nationwide register study, we examined the initiation of a second-line antidiabetic medicine (ADM) among new patients receiving regular metformin monotherapy in Finland during 2011–2022.
Hanna Rättö, Terhi Kurko, Pia Pajunen, Helena Kastarinen   +3 more
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New cancer medicines in Europe 2010–2020: comparison of medicines with or without extensions of indications

BMJ Open
Introduction During the last decade, extensions of therapeutic indications have been one of the most common methods to extend the lifecycle of a medical product in the post-authorisation phase and to increase the use and sales of medicines.
Kati Sarnola, Hanna Koskinen, Anna-Maria Ruuskanen, Terhi Kurko, Katariina Klintrup   +4 more
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez, Jill O. Robinson, Wendy A. Allen‐Rhoades, Hadley S. Smith, Isabel Canfield, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sarah R. Scollon, Lauren R. Desrosiers‐Battu, Nicole M. Schneider, Frank Y. Lin, Donald Williams Parsons, Sharon E. Plon, Mary A. Majumder, Janet Malek, Amy L. McGuire   +14 more
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Prescribing patterns before the initiation of novel antidiabetic medicines in public, occupational, and private healthcare: a register study reflecting the guidelines of care in type 2 diabetes

BMC Health Services Research
Background Disparities in access to healthcare has been implied before in Finland, a country with universal healthcare but de facto tiered primary care. Less is however known about the content of care provided in different settings.
Hanna Rättö, Mikko Nurminen, Katri Aaltonen   +2 more
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Is There Room for Targeting within Universalism? Finnish Social Assistance Recipients as Social Citizens

Social Inclusion, 2020
This article focuses on the role of means-tested social assistance in Finland, which is often considered one of the Nordic welfare states described as having a universal welfare model.
Paula Saikkonen, Minna Ylikännö
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Evaluation of the Utility of Baseline Echocardiogram in Patients With Standard Risk Precursor B‐Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background A routine baseline echocardiogram is often obtained prior to anthracycline administration in children with cancer. The utility of baseline echocardiogram is unclear in patients with standard risk B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR B‐ALL) as their anthracycline cumulative dose is low.
Ziyad Alrajhi, Alice Pozza, Luc Mertens, Adam Paul Yan, Sarah Alexander   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From long-term sickness absence to disability retirement: diagnostic and occupational class differences within the working-age Finnish population

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background It is well documented that sickness absence is strongly associated with disability retirement. A long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in particular increases the risk of disability retirement, but little is known about the variation of this risk ...
Laura Salonen, Jenni Blomgren, Mikko Laaksonen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medicare 1971: Changing Attitudes and Changing Legislation [PDF]

, 1970
Bone conduction (BC) is the way sound energy is transmitted by the skull bones to the cochlea causing a sound perception. Even if the BC sound transmission involves several pathways including sound pressure induced in the ear canal, inertial forces ...
Wolkstein, Irwin
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