Patients with rheumatoid arthritis facing sick leave or work disability meet varying regulations: a study among rheumatologists and patients from 44 European countries.
Polina PutrikJosef S SmolenFrancis GuilleminMárta PéntekFrancisca SiveraTuulikki SokkaMaarten de WitAnthony D WoolfAngela ZinkDaina AndersoneFlorian BergheaIrena ButrimieneSandra BrouwerKaren CassarParaskevi CharalambousRoberto CaporaliElena DeseatnicovaNemanja S DamjanovAxel FinckhOliver FitzGeraldGerður GröndalNino GobejishjviliPiotr GluszkoMarco HirschIgor JovanovicJiří VencovskýXavier JanssensAndras P KeszeiMaria KovarovaMart KullLuís Cunha MirandaMiroslav MayerSnezana Misevska-PercinkovaNevsun InancOleg NadashkevichIngemar F PeterssonKari PuolakkaBernadette RojkovichHelga RadnerFruzsina SzabadosGleb SlobodinIvan ShirinskyNikolay SorokaProdromos SidiropoulosRusska ShumnalievaSekib SokolovicSurayo ShukurovaArgjend TafajMatija TomšičTill UhligSuzanne M M VerstappenAnnelies BoonenPublished in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2019)
There is large heterogeneity in rules and regulations of SS systems across Europe in relation to WD of patients with RA, and it cannot be explained by existing welfare regimes, EU membership or country's wealth.