A clinician's guide to work-related assessments: 1 - purposes and problems.
This paper is the first of a series aimed at providing clinicians with a guide to assist them in using work-related assessments appropriately. The context of work-related assessments is described using a model. The purposes of work-related assessments are classified and discussed using the proposed model. The 10 major problems facing clinicians using work-related assessments are outlined. Companion papers describe the design, administration and interpretation problems in detail.
School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe NSW 2141, Australia.
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School of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Shenton Park, W.A., Australia.
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Functional capacity evaluation; Occupational rehabilitation; Work assessment; Work-related assessment