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Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective
OBJECTIVES: To describe the time perspective of return to work and the factors that facilitate and hinder return to work in a group of survivors of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS: Retrospective semi-structured telephone survey 2 to 3 years after hospitalization with 84 employed Dutch ACS-pat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22993716 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.2.117 |
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author | Slebus, Frans G Jorstad, Harald T Peters, Ron JG Kuijer, P Paul FM Willems, J Han HBM Sluiter, Judith K Frings-Dresen, Monique HW |
author_facet | Slebus, Frans G Jorstad, Harald T Peters, Ron JG Kuijer, P Paul FM Willems, J Han HBM Sluiter, Judith K Frings-Dresen, Monique HW |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To describe the time perspective of return to work and the factors that facilitate and hinder return to work in a group of survivors of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS: Retrospective semi-structured telephone survey 2 to 3 years after hospitalization with 84 employed Dutch ACS-patients from one academic medical hospital. RESULTS: Fifty-eight percent of patients returned to work within 3 months, whereas at least 88% returned to work once within 2 years. Two years after hospitalization, 12% of ACS patients had not returned to work at all, and 24% were working, but not at pre-ACS levels. For all ACS-patients, the most mentioned categories of facilitating factors to return to work were having no complaints and not having signs or symptoms of heart disease. Physical incapacity, co-morbidity, and mental incapacity were the top 3 categories of hindering factors against returning to work. CONCLUSION: Within 2 years, 36% of the patients had not returned to work at their pre-ACS levels. Disease factors, functional capacity, environmental factors, and personal factors were listed as affecting subjects' work ability level. |
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spelling | pubmed-34404602012-09-19 Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective Slebus, Frans G Jorstad, Harald T Peters, Ron JG Kuijer, P Paul FM Willems, J Han HBM Sluiter, Judith K Frings-Dresen, Monique HW Saf Health Work Original Article OBJECTIVES: To describe the time perspective of return to work and the factors that facilitate and hinder return to work in a group of survivors of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS: Retrospective semi-structured telephone survey 2 to 3 years after hospitalization with 84 employed Dutch ACS-patients from one academic medical hospital. RESULTS: Fifty-eight percent of patients returned to work within 3 months, whereas at least 88% returned to work once within 2 years. Two years after hospitalization, 12% of ACS patients had not returned to work at all, and 24% were working, but not at pre-ACS levels. For all ACS-patients, the most mentioned categories of facilitating factors to return to work were having no complaints and not having signs or symptoms of heart disease. Physical incapacity, co-morbidity, and mental incapacity were the top 3 categories of hindering factors against returning to work. CONCLUSION: Within 2 years, 36% of the patients had not returned to work at their pre-ACS levels. Disease factors, functional capacity, environmental factors, and personal factors were listed as affecting subjects' work ability level. Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2012-06 2012-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3440460/ /pubmed/22993716 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.2.117 Text en Copyright © 2012 by Safety and Health at Work (SH@W) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Slebus, Frans G Jorstad, Harald T Peters, Ron JG Kuijer, P Paul FM Willems, J Han HBM Sluiter, Judith K Frings-Dresen, Monique HW Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title | Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title_full | Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title_fullStr | Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title_short | Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients' Perspective |
title_sort | return to work after an acute coronary syndrome: patients' perspective |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22993716 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.2.117 |
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