The effect of community-acquired bacteraemia on return to workforce, risk of sick leave, permanent disability pension and death: a Danish population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about the prognosis of community-acquired bacteraemia (CAB) in workforce adults. We assessed return to workforce, risk for sick leave, disability pension and mortality within 1 year after CAB in workforce adults compared with blood culture-negative controls and population controls.

Design

Population-based cohort study.

Setting

North Denmark, 1996-2011.

Participants

We used population-based healthcare registries to identify all patients aged 20-58 years who had first-time blood cultures obtained within 48 h of medical hospital admission, and who were part of the workforce (450 bacteraemia exposed patients and 6936 culture-negative control patients). For each bacteraemia patient, we included up to 10 matched population controls.

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SUBMITTER: Dalager-Pedersen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3913024 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature