Physical Workplace Factors and Return to Work After Compensated Low Back Injury: A Disability Phase-Specific Analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Brand RJ ; Dasinger LK ; Deegan LJ ; Krause N ; Rudolph L
• Description:
  Little is known about predictors of duration of work disability (DOD). This cohort study of 433 workers' compensation claimants estimated DOD for job, injury, and demographic factors during consecutive disability phases using Cox regression analysis. DOD was calculated from administrative records. Results show that DOD increases with the time spent bending and lifting or pushing or pulling heavy objects at work, but it is unrelated to sitting, standing, or vibration. Younger age, longer pre-injury employment, less severe injuries, and a previous back injury predicted shorter disability, the latter factor only during the subacute/chronic disability phases. The effect of injury severity decayed over time. This study demonstrates the usefulness of a phase-specific analysis and shows that physical job and injury factors have a significant and time-varying impact on DOD. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Demography Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Vibration
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Back-injuries Demographic-characteristics Disabled-workers Dose-response Injuries Lost-work-days Manual-materials-handling Mathematical-models Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Physical-capacity Posture Risk-factors Vibration-effects

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  323-333
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031735
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2000 Mar; 42(3):323-333
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr Niklas Krause, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, 140 Warren Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
• Email:
  nkrause@uclink4.berkeley.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Health Services Research
• Performing Organization:
  State of California, San Francisco, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19950130
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  19990929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:60841a4721a02f1722ff89f9b8e473a9931d377bcac32b7c7947a90afddf4d5068575ef04c339ca8e4d81f2a9ae1f7a1c41510695e02bb2cb483a9b776a79f56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185917/cdc_185917_DS1.pdf
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