Association of Severe Trauma With Work and Earnings in a National Cohort in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Traumatic injury disproportionately affects adults of working age. The ability to work and earn income is a key patient-centered outcome. The association of severe injury with work and earnings appears to be unknown.

Objective

To evaluate the association of severe traumatic injury with subsequent employment and earnings in long-term survivors.

Design, setting, and participants

This is a retrospective, matched, national, population-based cohort study of adults who had employment and were hospitalized with severe traumatic injury in Canada between January 2008 and December 2010. All acute care hospitalizations for severe injury were included if they involved adults aged 30 to 61 years who were hospitalized with severe traumatic injury, working in the 2 years

SUBMITTER: Haas B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7593875 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature