Lost working days, productivity, and restraint use among occupants of motor vehicles that crashed in the United States

Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 314-319

  Ebel, B E ^a,b   Mack, C ^a   Diehr, P ^b,c   Rivara, F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; SURVIVAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WORK CAPACITY; WORK RESUMPTION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEAT BELTS; SICK LEAVE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 7544220576     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2004.005850     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. National Center for Statistics and Analysis. Crashworthiness data system (CDS). Washington, DC: National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2003.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2003.
3. MacKenzie EJ, Shapiro S, Smith RT, et al. Factors influencing return to work following hospitalization for traumatic injury. Am J Public Health 1987;77:329-34.
4. van der Sluis CK, Eisma WH, Groothoff JW, et al. Long-term physical, psychological and social consequences of severe injuries. Injury 1998;29:281-5.
5. Baldry Currens JA. Evaluation of disability and handicap following injury. Injury 2000;31:99-106.
6. MacKenzie EJ, Cushing BM, Jurkovich GJ, et al. Physical impairment and functional outcomes six months after severe lower extremity fractures. J Trauma 1993;34:528-38, discussion 538-9.
7. Mock C, MacKenzie E, Jurkovich G, et al. Determinants of disability after lower extremity fracture. J Trauma 2000;49:1002-11.
8. MacKenzie EJ, Jurkovich G, Burgess A, et al. Return to work following injury: the role of economic, social, and job-related factors. Am J Public Health 1998;88:1030-7.
9. Wagner AK, Hammond FM, Sasser HC, et al. Return to productive activity after traumatic brain injury: relationship with measures of disability, handicap, and community integration. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2002;83:107-14.
10. Ruffolo CF, Friedland JF, Dawson DR, et al. Mild traumatic brain injury from motor vehicle accidents: factors associated with return to work. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1999;80:392-8.
11. Miller TR. Costs and functional consequences of US roadway crashes. Accid Anal Prev 1993;25:593-607.
12. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. The abbreviated injury scale. Des Plaines, IL: AAAM, 1990.
13. Greenland S, Finkle WD. A critical look at methods for handling missing covariates in epidemiologic regression analyses. Am J Epidemiol 1995;142:1255-64.
14. Engels JM, Diehr P. Imputation of missing longitudinal data: a comparison of methods. J Clin Epidemiol 2003;56:968-76.
15. Gold M. Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
16. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, second quarter 2003 averages, not seasonally adjusted. Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2003.
17. Lumley T, Diehr P, Emerson S, et al. The importance of the normality assumption in large public health data sets. Annu Rev Public Health 2002;23:151-69.
18. Cummings P, Wells JD, Rivara FP. Estimating seat belt effectiveness using matched-pair cohort methods. Accid Anal Prev 2003;35:143-9.
19. Rivara FP, Koepsell TD, Grossman DC, et al. Effectiveness of automatic shoulder belt systems in motor vehicle crashes. JAMA 2000;283:2826-8.
20. Orsay EM, Dunne M, Turnbull TL, et al. Prospective study of the effect of safety belts in motor vehicle crashes. Ann Emerg Med 1990;19:258-61.
21. Marine WM, Kerwin EM, Moore EE, et al. Mandatory seatbelts: epidemiologic, financial, and medical rationale from the Colorado matched pairs study. J Trauma 1994;36:96-100.
22. Newman RJ. A prospective evaluation of the protective effect of car seatbelts. J Trauma 1986;26:561-4.
23. Campbell BJ. Safety belt injury reduction related to crash severity and front seated position. J Trauma 1987;27:733-9.
24. Cooper PJ. Estimating overinvolvement of seat belt nonwearers in crashes and the effect of lap/shoulder restraint use on different crash severity consequences. Accid Anal Prev 1994;26:263-75.
25. McGee DL, Rhodes P. Estimating trends in the effectiveness of seat belts in saving lives, 1975-1985. Stat Med 1989;8:379-85.
26. Currens JAB. Evaluation of disability and handicap following injury. Injury 2000;31:99-106.
27. Mason S, Mason S, Wardrope J, et al. Outcomes after injury: a comparison of workplace and nonworkplace injury. J Trauma 2002;53:98-103.