TBV – Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfs- en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde

Welcome to the TBV EUMASS special issue for the XXIInd EUMASS Congress of Insurance Medicine in Maastricht!

• Introduction

Gert Lindenger

Building bridges

• Editorial

Wim Otto

Answering questions at a congress: do’s and don’ts

• Speaker’s corner

Bert Cornelius

The assessment by insurance physicians of functional limitations related to mental disorders among disability benefit claimants

• Research

Bert Cornelius, Femke Abma, Tialda Hoekstra, Sandra Brouwer

Utilisation of nationwide register data to assess the effectiveness of changes in sickness insurance legislation on work participation and analyse sickness absence and disability retirement trends in Finland

• Research

Eira Viikari-Juntura, Taina Leinonen, Lauri Virta, Kirsti Husgafvel-Pursiainen, Mikko Laaksonen, Ilona Autti-Rämö, Svetlana Solovieva

Street-level casework and mentally ill jobseekers under Social Code II in Germany: Counselling and the role of medical services

• Research

Peter Kupka, Sandra Popp

The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB): Development and validation review

• Research

Julia Porcino, Beth Marfeo, Christine McDonough, Leighton Chan

Updating the evidence on functional capacity evaluation methods: a systematic review

• Research in brief

Stijn De Baets, Patrick Calders, Dominique Van de Velde

Criteria of a cognitive concept of objectivity for use in social insurance medicine

• Research in brief

Hans Magnus Solli, António Barbosa da Silva

Association between social factors and performance during functional capacity evaluations: A systematic review

• Research in brief

Jone Ansuategui Echeita, Berry van Holland, Douglas Gross, Jan Kool, Peter Oesch, Maurizio Trippolini, Michiel Reneman

Telephone follow-up in an occupational rehabilitation programme – a randomised controlled trial

• Research in brief

Karen Walseth Hara, Johan Håkon Bjørngaard, Søren Brage, Petter Christian Borchgrevink, Vidar Halsteinli, Tore Charles Stiles, Roar Johnsen, Astrid Woodhouse

Socio-economic differences in health impacts of exit from work

• Research in brief

Rosanne Schaap

The feasibility of occupational rehabilitation in transdiagnostic groups for participants with chronic pain, chronic fatigue and common mental disorders

• Research in brief

Karen Walseth Hara, Petter Christian Borchgrevink, Henrik Børsting Jacobsen, Marius Steiro Fimland, Marit By Rise, Sigmund Gismervik MD, Astrid Woodhouse

The development of a common understanding regarding terms used in social insurance, disability and insurance medicine across Europe – the Babylon project

• Instrument development

Nerys Williams, Gert Lindenger

Need for a core outcome set on work participation

• Instrument development

Jan Hoving, Cecilia Prinsen, Regina Kunz, Jos Verbeek

Interventions for obtaining and maintaining employment in adults with severe mental illness

• Cochrane Corner & EBM

Yvonne Suijkerbuijk, Jan Hoving, Frederieke Schaafsma

A practical example of the effects of overdiagnosis on hospital stay and sick leave costs

• Review

Karolien van Nunen

What are the concerns of claimants who underwent a disability assessment? – a case study

• In practice

Regine Lohss, Monica Bachmann, Brigitte Walter Meyer, Wout de Boer, Katrin Fischer, Regina Kunz

How to handle dilemmas in insurance medicine

• In practice

Haije Wind, Bert Cornelius

The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery

• Interview

Rolf Blijleven, Wim Otto

The ICF marks a paradigm shift

• Thesis review

André Weel

Promoting active ageing and longer employment in Romania

• Opinion

Despina Gherman, Corina Oancea

Organising a EUMASS congress – what does it take?

• Interview

Rolf Blijleven, Wim Otto

van de verenigingen

• Van de verenigingen