Isernhagen Susan J
DSI Work Solutions, Inc., 130 West Superior Street, Suite 625, Duluth, MN 55802, USA.
Work. 2006;26(3):237-42.
Return to work after injury or illness is important for the worker and the employer. Medical providers manage and treat the worker with the illness or injury. Except in cases of focused specialists, the medical professional's role is to take care of a patient, rather than empower a worker. As much as there is promotion of the workers compensation health care system to be similar to sports medicine, there are significant dissimilarities. One major barrier is that the medical caregivers do not know the demands of jobs as they would know the details of sports. Thus, there is a gap in returning a worker to function as the medical professional cannot accurately match the worker to specific jobs. A new model of job function matching, based on research and skills of occupational rehabilitation professionals, is proposed to bridge the gap between the medical community, the employers and the workers.
伤病后重返工作岗位对工人和雇主都很重要。医疗服务提供者对患病或受伤的工人进行管理和治疗。除了专注的专科医生的情况外，医疗专业人员的角色是照顾患者，而不是赋予工人权力。尽管人们大力推广工人赔偿医疗保健系统，使其类似于运动医学，但两者存在显著差异。一个主要障碍是，医疗护理人员不了解工作需求，不像他们了解运动细节那样。因此，在让工人恢复工作能力方面存在差距，因为医疗专业人员无法准确地将工人与特定工作相匹配。基于职业康复专业人员的研究和技能，提出了一种新的工作功能匹配模型，以弥合医疗界、雇主和工人之间的差距。
