Sensory impairments, problems of balance and accidental injury at work: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Sensory impairments are becoming increasingly common in the workforces of Western countries. To assess their role in occupational injury, and that of disorders of balance, we undertook a case-control study.

Methods

Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, which documents all medical consultations, referrals and diagnoses in primary care for 6% of the British population, we identified 1348 working-aged patients who had consulted medical services over a 22-year period for workplace injury (cases) and 6652 age-matched, sex-matched and practice-matched controls. Risks were assessed by conditional logistic regression, for earlier recorded diagnoses of visual impairment, common eye diseases, hearing loss, perforated ear drum, non-acute otitis media and disorders o

SUBMITTER: Palmer KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4467023 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature