Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury and Income and Employment Status.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes drastic changes to an individual's physical health that may be associated with the ability to work.

Objective

To estimate the association of SCI with individual earnings and employment status using national administrative health databases linked to income tax data.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective, national, population-based cohort study of adults who were hospitalized with cervical SCI in Canada between January 2005 and December 2017. All acute care hospitalizations for SCI of adults ages 18 to 64 years were included. A comparison group was constructed by sampling from individuals in the injured cohort. Fiscal information from their preinjury years was used for comparison. The injured cohort was mat

SUBMITTER: Jaffe RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11200142 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature