https://www.selleckchem.com/products/picrotoxin.html OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the multilevel association between workplace social capital and intention to leave among employees in health care settings in Japan. METHODS This study was a secondary data analysis of the cross-sectional data. A sample of 658 Japanese employees in health care settings with 17 facilities were recruited using a self-administered questionnaire. Multilevel linear regression analysis of intention to leave on unit-level workplace social capital (average score for each unit) was conducted. RESULTS Among 317 respondents from 49 units, after adjusting for demographic and work-related variables, both unit-level and individual-level workplace social capital were significantly negatively associated with intention to leave (p  less then  0.001). CONCLUSIONS The current study found that there was a significant negative association between unit-level workplace social capital and intention to leave the health care field.OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether work absence is associated with increased health services utilization and health care costs among employed individuals with arthritis. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study using pooled data from the 2011 to 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Employed individuals with arthritis were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9) codes and Clinical Classification code. Generalized linear models were used to analyze utilization and costs outcomes. RESULTS Individuals with arthritis who reported work absences had greater odds of having a hospitalization event (odds ratio [OR] 9.198, P  less then  0.001), higher number of ambulatory care visits (β = 0.549, P  less then  0.001), and had higher total health care costs (β = 0.40, P  less then  0.001) and arthritis-related costs (β = 0.035, P  less then  0.0002) compared with individuals without work absenc