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Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study

Motorcycles are widely used in various workplaces. Motorcycle use for occupational purposes continues to increase owing to growing e-commerce. Here, we aimed to highlight the importance of occupational motorcycle injuries by analyzing their epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes. We analyzed ret...

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Autores principales: Moon, Sungbae, Ryoo, Hyun Wook, Cho, Jae Wan, Jung, Haewon, Seo, Kang Suk, Lim, Kyoung Hoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10057783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36989315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283512
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author Moon, Sungbae
Ryoo, Hyun Wook
Cho, Jae Wan
Jung, Haewon
Seo, Kang Suk
Lim, Kyoung Hoon
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Ryoo, Hyun Wook
Cho, Jae Wan
Jung, Haewon
Seo, Kang Suk
Lim, Kyoung Hoon
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description Motorcycles are widely used in various workplaces. Motorcycle use for occupational purposes continues to increase owing to growing e-commerce. Here, we aimed to highlight the importance of occupational motorcycle injuries by analyzing their epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes. We analyzed retrospective data from the Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth Surveillance program from 2012 to 2018. Motor vehicle injuries involving riders aged ≥16 years were included. Patients were divided into occupational motorcycle and non-occupational motorcycle injury groups based on whether or not the injury occurred during work time. General characteristics, injury details, and clinical outcomes such as injury severity and in-hospital mortality were analyzed. Of the 37,194 study patients, 24.2% (8,991) experienced occupational motorcycle injuries. The number of injuries in both groups increased yearly, as did the proportion of occupational injuries among total injuries. In both the groups, patients aged 20–29 years had the highest proportion of injuries. Regarding collision pattern and injury counterpart, side-to-side collisions and injuries involving small four-wheel vehicles were the most frequent. Alcohol intake was significantly lower, while helmet usage was higher in the occupational motorcycle injury group. Moreover, patients with occupational motorcycle injuries had lower injury severity, admission rate, and in-hospital mortality. On multivariable logistic regression analysis, increasing age, time of the injury, alcohol intake, not using a helmet, and collision with a human or animal were associated with higher odds of severe injury. Patients with occupational injuries had higher helmet usage, lower injury severity, lower mortality, and lower admission rate than did patients with non-occupational injuries. Injury severity was associated with the time of injury, collision with other living objects, alcohol consumption, and helmet usage.
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spelling pubmed-100577832023-03-30 Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study Moon, Sungbae Ryoo, Hyun Wook Cho, Jae Wan Jung, Haewon Seo, Kang Suk Lim, Kyoung Hoon PLoS One Research Article Motorcycles are widely used in various workplaces. Motorcycle use for occupational purposes continues to increase owing to growing e-commerce. Here, we aimed to highlight the importance of occupational motorcycle injuries by analyzing their epidemiologic characteristics and outcomes. We analyzed retrospective data from the Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth Surveillance program from 2012 to 2018. Motor vehicle injuries involving riders aged ≥16 years were included. Patients were divided into occupational motorcycle and non-occupational motorcycle injury groups based on whether or not the injury occurred during work time. General characteristics, injury details, and clinical outcomes such as injury severity and in-hospital mortality were analyzed. Of the 37,194 study patients, 24.2% (8,991) experienced occupational motorcycle injuries. The number of injuries in both groups increased yearly, as did the proportion of occupational injuries among total injuries. In both the groups, patients aged 20–29 years had the highest proportion of injuries. Regarding collision pattern and injury counterpart, side-to-side collisions and injuries involving small four-wheel vehicles were the most frequent. Alcohol intake was significantly lower, while helmet usage was higher in the occupational motorcycle injury group. Moreover, patients with occupational motorcycle injuries had lower injury severity, admission rate, and in-hospital mortality. On multivariable logistic regression analysis, increasing age, time of the injury, alcohol intake, not using a helmet, and collision with a human or animal were associated with higher odds of severe injury. Patients with occupational injuries had higher helmet usage, lower injury severity, lower mortality, and lower admission rate than did patients with non-occupational injuries. Injury severity was associated with the time of injury, collision with other living objects, alcohol consumption, and helmet usage. Public Library of Science 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10057783/ /pubmed/36989315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283512 Text en © 2023 Moon et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Seo, Kang Suk
Lim, Kyoung Hoon
Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title_full Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title_fullStr Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title_short Comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in Korea: A 7-years observational study
title_sort comparison of incidence and outcome between occupational and non-occupational motorcycle injuries in korea: a 7-years observational study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10057783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36989315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283512
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