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01-10-2016 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Shoulder Activity Level is Associated with Type of Employment and Income in the Normative Population Without Shoulder Disorders
Author:
Anthony E. Johnson, MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 10/2016
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Excerpt
Although preventable illness, injury, disability, and death touch almost everyone, vital health outcomes vary among race, sex, socioeconomic status, military status, and geographic location [
3]. Evidence-based healthcare uses the best evidence to make patient-centered clinical decisions. Therefore, patients are a valuable, and arguably (when coupled with appropriate patient education) the authoritative source of information on outcomes such as health-related quality-of-life, functional status, symptom burden, and health behaviors [
8,
9]. …