Table 2.
Quality appraisal information using CASP tools for all included studies
| Review 1: facilitators of and barriers to return-to-work (qualitative studies) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aims clearly stated | Appropriate method | Appropriate design to address research aims | Appropriate recruitment strategy | Data collection addressed research issue | Relationship between researcher/participants adequately considered | Ethical issues taken into consideration | Sufficient data analysis rigor | Clear statement of findings | |
| Bunzli et al. 2017 [28] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Buys et al. 2017 [29] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cheng et al. 2011 [30] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kosny et al. 2012 [31] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lysaght et al. 2008 [32] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MacEachen et al. 2007 [33] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mansfield et al. 2014 [34] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mullen et al. 2015 [35] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Norland et al. 2013 [36] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Soklaridis et al. 2010 [37] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thornthwaite et al. 2017 [38] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Review 2: predictors of return-to-work (cohort and case control studies) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohort | Clear focused issued | Appropriate cohort recruitment | Exposure accurately measured | Outcome accurately measured | Important confounding factors identified | Important confounding factors accounted for | Follow-up complete enough | Follow-up long enough | – |
| de Vente et al. 2015 [40] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Jetha et al. 2017 [42] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Kong et al. 2012 [43] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Li-Tsang et al. [45] | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Marois et al. 2009 [44] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | |
| Netterstrom et al. 2015 [47] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reme et al. 2012 [48] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Watt et al. 2015 [50] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | – | |
| Case control | Clearly focused issued | Appropriate method | Appropriate cases recruitment | Appropriate control selection | Exposure accurately measured | Important confounding factors identified | Important confounding factors accounted for | – | – |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boot et al. 2014 [39] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ||
| Holtedahl et al. 2007 [41] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ||
| Lee et al. 2015 [46] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ||
| St-Arnaud et al. 2007 [49] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✗ |
✓ = Criteria was met. ✗ = Criteria was not met. – = not eligible