TBV – Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfs- en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde

• Introduction

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

Gert Lindenger

• Editorial

Building bridges

Wim Otto

• Speaker’s corner

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

Bert Cornelius

• Research

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

Bert Cornelius, Femke Abma, Tialda Hoekstra, Sandra Brouwer

• Research

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

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

• Research

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

Peter Kupka, Sandra Popp

• Research

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

Julia Porcino, Beth Marfeo, Christine McDonough, Leighton Chan

• Research in brief

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

Stijn De Baets, Patrick Calders, Dominique Van de Velde

• Research in brief

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

Hans Magnus Solli, António Barbosa da Silva

• Research in brief

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

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

• Research in brief

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

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

• Research in brief

Socio-economic differences in health impacts of exit from work

Rosanne Schaap

• Research in brief

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

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

• Instrument development

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

Nerys Williams, Gert Lindenger

• Instrument development

Need for a core outcome set on work participation

Jan Hoving, Cecilia Prinsen, Regina Kunz, Jos Verbeek

• Cochrane Corner & EBM

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

Yvonne Suijkerbuijk, Jan Hoving, Frederieke Schaafsma

• Review

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

Karolien van Nunen

• In practice

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

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

• In practice

How to handle dilemmas in insurance medicine

Haije Wind, Bert Cornelius

• Interview

The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery

Rolf Blijleven, Wim Otto

• Thesis review

The ICF marks a paradigm shift

André Weel

• Opinion

Promoting active ageing and longer employment in Romania

Despina Gherman, Corina Oancea

• Interview

Organising a EUMASS congress – what does it take?

Rolf Blijleven, Wim Otto

• Van de verenigingen

van de verenigingen