… Inflammatory bowel disease has a major impact on physical and … Although inflammatory
bowel disease patients' level of … Five were on sick leave, three were unemployed, five had a …

… sick days per person (16.4 versus 8.8 days) as compared with individuals without IBD.
Disability days were more frequent among individuals with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. …

… Indirect costs associated with impaired productivity at work (presenteeism) due to inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD) are a major … Sick leave and disability pension in inflammatory bowel …

… If after 104 mo the person is still on sick leave the same law prescribes whether patients
receive a disability pension. There are two types of disability pension; partial disability (35%-80…

… overestimate the average number of sick leave days. Nevertheless, we observed an
evolutionary trend towards a decrease in the number of sick leave days for both IBD phenotypes in …

… sick leave translating into a mean loss of earnings of €289 over 3 months. In UC patients,
13% were absent from work due to sick leave, … of productivity loss due to sick leave was 430 [±…

… However, we detected relatively low numbers of Israeli patients reporting sick leave more
than once in the previous year and a relatively low mean age, which are negatively associated …

… sick leave and disability, a consequence of stricter sick leave regulations. Excess costs in
2007 were dominated by productivity losses. In 2020, excess costs were mostly healthcare …

… We therefore focused on sick leave in days to illustrate changes in productivity losses.
We found that 18% of employed CD patients and 13% of employed UC patients reported …

… Delineating the differences between sick leave and disability may be an important component
of the process. Another corollary includes the duration of disability and the expectation …