The role of mental health problems and common psychotropic drug treatments in accidental injury at work: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Mental illness and psychotropic drugs have been linked with workplace injury, but few studies have measured exposures and outcomes independently or established their relative timings. To address this shortcoming, we conducted a case-control study nested within a database prospectively recording injury consultations, diagnoses and drug prescriptions.

Methods

The Clinical Practice Research Datalink logs primary care data for 6% of the British population, coding all consultations (by the Read system) and drug prescriptions. We identified 1348 patients aged 16-64 years from this database who had consulted a family doctor or hospital over a 20-year period for workplace injury (cases, 479 diagnostic codes) and 6652 age, sex and practice-matched controls with no such con

SUBMITTER: Palmer KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3984107 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature