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Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references
OBJECTIVES: Recent studies based on self-assessed data on exposure and outcome suggest a negative association between poor health before neck injury and recovery. Our aim was to study actual healthcare consultation and work disability before and after neck injury (whiplash). DESIGN: Cohort study wit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23996819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003172 |
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author | Jöud, Anna Stjerna, Johanna Malmström, Eva-Maj Westergren, Hans Petersson, Ingemar F Englund, Martin |
author_facet | Jöud, Anna Stjerna, Johanna Malmström, Eva-Maj Westergren, Hans Petersson, Ingemar F Englund, Martin |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Recent studies based on self-assessed data on exposure and outcome suggest a negative association between poor health before neck injury and recovery. Our aim was to study actual healthcare consultation and work disability before and after neck injury (whiplash). DESIGN: Cohort study with matched references studied prospectively and retrospectively via regional and national held registers. SETTING: Population-based study in Region Skåne, Sweden (population=1.21 million) including all levels of healthcare. PARTICIPANTS: 1443 participants aged ≥18 (54% women) with acute neck injury, Whiplash, (International Classification of Diseases-10-SE code S13.4*) in 2007 or 2008 and no such diagnosis since 1998. Each patient with a neck injury was assigned four randomly selected population references matched for age, sex and area of residence (97% of the patients and 94% of the references were followed during the whole study period). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: We studied changes in healthcare consultations 3 years before to 3 years after diagnosis as well as sick leave episodes. Analyses were also stratified by preinjury frequency of consultation. RESULTS: Before the injury, the mean number of total consultations over 36 months among the neck injured (n=1443) and references (n=5772) was 9.3 vs 7.2 (p<0.0001) and postneck injury 12.7 vs 7.8 (p<0.0001). In the group of high-frequent consulters, there were more women compared with frequent and low-frequent consulters (70.6% vs 32.8%; p<0.0001). Among low-frequent and frequent consulters preinjury (n=967, 67% of the cohort), 16% became high-frequent consulters attributable to the injury. The number of days of sick leave preinjury was correlated with the number of preinjury and postinjury consultations (r=0.47 (99% CI 0.38 to 0.49), r=0.32 (99% CI 0.25 to 0.37)). CONCLUSIONS: People with a neck injury constitute a heterogeneous group. The preinjury level of healthcare consultation is associated with the postinjury level of consultation. |
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spelling | pubmed-37589802013-09-03 Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references Jöud, Anna Stjerna, Johanna Malmström, Eva-Maj Westergren, Hans Petersson, Ingemar F Englund, Martin BMJ Open Epidemiology OBJECTIVES: Recent studies based on self-assessed data on exposure and outcome suggest a negative association between poor health before neck injury and recovery. Our aim was to study actual healthcare consultation and work disability before and after neck injury (whiplash). DESIGN: Cohort study with matched references studied prospectively and retrospectively via regional and national held registers. SETTING: Population-based study in Region Skåne, Sweden (population=1.21 million) including all levels of healthcare. PARTICIPANTS: 1443 participants aged ≥18 (54% women) with acute neck injury, Whiplash, (International Classification of Diseases-10-SE code S13.4*) in 2007 or 2008 and no such diagnosis since 1998. Each patient with a neck injury was assigned four randomly selected population references matched for age, sex and area of residence (97% of the patients and 94% of the references were followed during the whole study period). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: We studied changes in healthcare consultations 3 years before to 3 years after diagnosis as well as sick leave episodes. Analyses were also stratified by preinjury frequency of consultation. RESULTS: Before the injury, the mean number of total consultations over 36 months among the neck injured (n=1443) and references (n=5772) was 9.3 vs 7.2 (p<0.0001) and postneck injury 12.7 vs 7.8 (p<0.0001). In the group of high-frequent consulters, there were more women compared with frequent and low-frequent consulters (70.6% vs 32.8%; p<0.0001). Among low-frequent and frequent consulters preinjury (n=967, 67% of the cohort), 16% became high-frequent consulters attributable to the injury. The number of days of sick leave preinjury was correlated with the number of preinjury and postinjury consultations (r=0.47 (99% CI 0.38 to 0.49), r=0.32 (99% CI 0.25 to 0.37)). CONCLUSIONS: People with a neck injury constitute a heterogeneous group. The preinjury level of healthcare consultation is associated with the postinjury level of consultation. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3758980/ /pubmed/23996819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003172 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology Jöud, Anna Stjerna, Johanna Malmström, Eva-Maj Westergren, Hans Petersson, Ingemar F Englund, Martin Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title | Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title_full | Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title_fullStr | Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title_short | Healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
title_sort | healthcare consultation and sick leave before and after neck injury: a cohort study with matched population-based references |
topic | Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23996819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003172 |
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