TY - JOUR
T1 - Return to work after major trauma
AU - Holtslag, Herman R.
AU - Post, Marcel W.
AU - van der Werken, Chris
AU - Lindeman, Eline
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Objective: To quantify the prevalence of return to work after major trauma, and to investigate the determinants of postinjury work status. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: University Medical Centre Utrecht, a level 1 trauma centre in the Netherlands. Method: All severely injured (ISS > 16) adult (age = 16+) trauma survivors admitted from January 1999 to December 2000 who were full-time employed at the time of the injury were selected for follow-up (n = 214). Response rate was 93%. Outcome was assessed at a mean of 15 months (SD = 1.5) after injury. Multivariate logistic regression analyses identified determinants at hospital discharge and at follow-up. Results: Following injury 58.4% of the patients (n = 125) were able to return to full-time employment, 21.5% had a part-time job, and 20.1% did not return to work. Univariate analysis yielded the following significant determinants of postinjury work status: age, comorbidity, injury severity score, brain injury, spinal cord injury, length of stay in an intensive care unit, hospital stay, discharge destination, percentage of permanent impairment (according to the fourth American Medical Association guide (AMA)), limitations in activities of daily living and cognitive complaints. Logistic regression analyses (23% explained variance) identified spinal cord injury, duration of hospital stay, discharge destination and age as determinants of return to work at hospital discharge. At follow-up, determinants of return to work included AMA, activities of daily living, cognitive complaints and being discharged home (51% explained variance). Conclusions: Around 60% of the patients returned to their pre-injury work status after major trauma. The return to work rate was only partly explained by disability at follow-up. Independent determinants of return to work differ with the time of assessment
AB - Objective: To quantify the prevalence of return to work after major trauma, and to investigate the determinants of postinjury work status. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: University Medical Centre Utrecht, a level 1 trauma centre in the Netherlands. Method: All severely injured (ISS > 16) adult (age = 16+) trauma survivors admitted from January 1999 to December 2000 who were full-time employed at the time of the injury were selected for follow-up (n = 214). Response rate was 93%. Outcome was assessed at a mean of 15 months (SD = 1.5) after injury. Multivariate logistic regression analyses identified determinants at hospital discharge and at follow-up. Results: Following injury 58.4% of the patients (n = 125) were able to return to full-time employment, 21.5% had a part-time job, and 20.1% did not return to work. Univariate analysis yielded the following significant determinants of postinjury work status: age, comorbidity, injury severity score, brain injury, spinal cord injury, length of stay in an intensive care unit, hospital stay, discharge destination, percentage of permanent impairment (according to the fourth American Medical Association guide (AMA)), limitations in activities of daily living and cognitive complaints. Logistic regression analyses (23% explained variance) identified spinal cord injury, duration of hospital stay, discharge destination and age as determinants of return to work at hospital discharge. At follow-up, determinants of return to work included AMA, activities of daily living, cognitive complaints and being discharged home (51% explained variance). Conclusions: Around 60% of the patients returned to their pre-injury work status after major trauma. The return to work rate was only partly explained by disability at follow-up. Independent determinants of return to work differ with the time of assessment
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215507072084
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215507072084
M3 - Article
C2 - 17613579
SN - 0269-2155
VL - 21
SP - 373
EP - 383
JO - Clinical rehabilitation
JF - Clinical rehabilitation
IS - 4
ER -