This is of similar magnitude to findings from other studies of work absence [ 5, 7] and illustrates the substantial impact of depression on absenteeism.
There is growing interest and attention on the substantial impact of fatigue on COPD patients [ 5, 6] and the need of a short, simple, reliable and valid instrument that can improve the assessment of fatigue in COPD.
Parking policies have become an integral part of modern urban planning strategies as transportation planners and engineers have recognized the substantial impact they may have on mode choice and travel routes, directly affecting urban mobility characteristics.
To our knowledge, this is the first study examining productivity costs associated with ACS, and the results show the substantial impact on productivity costs.
Risk assessment methods have now been developed for this purpose (Künzli et al. 2008), and we have shown the substantial impact this has on the total burden of disease attributed to pollution (Perez et al. 2009).
The results of this study indicate a strong difference between VFD-patients and healthy controls which documents the substantial impact of vision impairment especially on subjectively perceived VRQoL.
Our analysis of extensive archival mortality statistics, death certificates, and contemporaneous newspaper reports reveals the substantial impact of the 1918 1921 pandemic in Chile.
While the time scales for electric power and primary energy are often different, the method for approaching security through the three-defence-lines concept [9] can be applicable to both, and a common tool would permit the substantial impact of primary energy congestion on power system security to be addressed.
This analysis is unsurprising since those patients at highest risk (such as the elderly) stand to gain most from an early invasive strategy, and this fact is consistent with the substantial impact of age on risk in scores, such as the GRACE score.
This one decision was helping to bring home the substantial impacts of air travel.
