Wolvetang, Sjors
van Dongen, Johanna Maria
Speklé, Erwin
Coenen, Pieter
Schaafsma, Frederieke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5827-7000
Article History
Accepted: 11 April 2022
First Online: 16 May 2022
Declarations
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: Author E.S. is an employee of Arbo Unie OHS (that has provided the data for this study) and participated in the study during working hours. There were no other conflicts of interest reported by the authors.
: The Medical Ethical Committee of the VUmc in Amsterdam declared that this study was not subject to the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act.
: The received data related to sick leave is part of a dataset that is originally intended for care-related purposes and not for research. Given the enormous size of the study and its retrospective nature, it was not possible to obtain informed consent from each individual. The data were provided completely anonymously by Arbo Unie, so that the privacy of an individual was fully guaranteed, hence the Medical Ethical Committee has also given permission to use this data for this study.
: Arbo Unie provided the data to conduct this study and approves this publication.