DeCS

Descriptor English:

Work Capacity Evaluation

Descriptor Spanish:

Evaluación de Capacidad de Trabajo

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	valoración de la capacidad de trabajo
Scope note:	Evaluación de las capacidades fisiológicas en relación con los requisitos laborales. Usualmente se realiza midiendo ciertas variables fisiológicas (p. ej., circulatorias y respiratorias) durante una carga laboral gradualmente creciente hasta que aparecen limitaciones específicas con respecto a dichas variables.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Avaliação da Capacidade de Trabalho

Descriptor French:

Évaluation de la capacité de travail

Entry term(s):

Capacity Evaluation, Work
Capacity Evaluations, Work
Evaluation, Work Capacity
Evaluations, Work Capacity
Work Capacity Evaluations

Tree number(s):

E01.370.400.925

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014938

Scope note:

Assessment of physiological capacities in relation to job requirements. It is usually done by measuring certain physiological (e.g., circulatory and respiratory) variables during a gradually increasing workload until specific limitations occur with respect to those variables.

Allowable Qualifiers:

No qualifiers

Previous Indexing:

Disability Evaluation (1966-1974)

Public MeSH Note:

86; was see under DISABILITY EVALUATION 1966-85

Online Note:

search DISABILITY EVALUATION 1966-74

History Note:

86(75); was see under DISABILITY EVALUATION 1966-85

Entry Version:

WORK CAPAC EVALUATION

DeCS ID:

15336

Unique ID:

D014938

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1986/01/01

Date of Entry:

1999/01/01

Revision Date:

1997/06/20

ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT

Diagnosis [E01]

Diagnosis

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures [E01.370]

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Disability Evaluation [E01.370.400]

Disability Evaluation

Work Capacity Evaluation [E01.370.400.925]

Work Capacity Evaluation

Work Capacity Evaluation - Preferred

Concept UI	M0023008
Scope note	Assessment of physiological capacities in relation to job requirements. It is usually done by measuring certain physiological (e.g., circulatory and respiratory) variables during a gradually increasing workload until specific limitations occur with respect to those variables.
Preferred term	Work Capacity Evaluation
Entry term(s)	Capacity Evaluation, Work Capacity Evaluations, Work Evaluation, Work Capacity Evaluations, Work Capacity Work Capacity Evaluations

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