Table 2 Characteristics of articles included in the review

1. The influence of social capital on employers’ use of occupational health services: a qualitative study. Ståhl et al. 2015 [8]

Interviews: 16 individual interviews, 8 focus group interviews of public sector employees with 44 interviewees, 25 interviews of OHS professionals

To explore how employers and OHS providers describe their business relations and the use of OHS in rehabilitation in relation to the organization of such services.

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2. Successful collaboration between occupational health service providers and client companies: Key factors. Schmidt et al. 2015 [17]

Semi-structured interviews in 15 companies and their OHS, total of 66 interviews

This paper identifies key factors for successful collaboration between

Swedish OHS providers and their client companies

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3. How can occupational health services in Sweden contribute to work ability? Schmidt et al. 2012

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Semi-structured interviews for 15 companies and their OHS, total of 66 interviews

To identify successful interactions of companies and OHS

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4. Challenges of OHS for changing working life. Husman and Husman 2006 [18]

Telephone interviews for managers, employees and OHS personnel (n = 2438) in 2001 working in a random sample of workplaces

To reveal the expectations of clients of OHS and the factors that are perceived to affect fluency of cooperation.

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5. Networking between occupational health services, client enterprises and other experts: difficulties, supporting factors and benefits. Peltomäki and Husman 2002 [9]

Mixed methods: computer-assisted telephone interviews (n = 6), network interviews (n = 6), thematic in-depth interviews (n = 6), documents (e.g. annual reports, budgets)

To study difficulties, supporting factors and benefits of networking to enterprises and partners (OHS)

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6. Towards an effective co-operation between companies and occupational safety and health services. van der Drift 2002 [19]

Interviews in 5 organisations, 4 account managers of occupational safety and health services (OSH-Services), representatives of 3 employer organisations and 1 employee organisation.

From the company point of view, to find out how companies and OSH-Services can co-operate more effectively to obtain a better OSH management system.

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