Primary preventive effects of a multifaceted workplace intervention on low back pain

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Body@Work, Research Center Physical Activity, Work and Health, TNO-VUmc, the Netherlands.

Editorial

Allard J van der Beek. Pain. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;156(9):1583-1584.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000274.

¹ Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Body@Work, Research Center Physical Activity, Work and Health, TNO-VUmc, the Netherlands.

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A multifaceted workplace intervention for low back pain in nurses' aides: a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial.
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