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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1 - 7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | BMJ Open |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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The incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease : A cohort study of WorkSafe Victoria, Australia compensation claims. / Ruseckaite, Rasa; Collie, Alex.
In: BMJ Open, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2013, p. 1 - 7.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - The incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease
T2 - A cohort study of WorkSafe Victoria, Australia compensation claims
AU - Ruseckaite, Rasa
AU - Collie, Alex
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - To determine the incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease over the period 1995-2008. Design: Population-based cohort study using data from the state workers compensation system database. Setting: State of Victoria, Australia. Participants: A total of 448 868 workers with an accepted workers compensation claim between 1 January 1995 and 31 December 2008 were included into this study. Of them, 135 349 had at least one subsequent claim accepted for a recurrent injury or disease during this period. Main outcome measures: Incidence of initial and recurrent injury and disease claims and time lost from work for initial and recurrent injury and disease. Results: Over the study period, 448 868 workers lodged 972 281 claims for discrete occurrences of work-related injury or disease. 53.4 of these claims were for recurrent injury or disease. On average, the rates of initial claims dropped by 5.6 , 95 CI (-5.8 to-5.7 ) per annum, while the rates of recurrent injuries decreased by 4.1 , 95 CI (-4.2 to-0.4 ). In total, workplace injury and disease resulted in 188 978 years of loss in full-time work, with 104 556 of them being for the recurrent injury. Conclusions: Recurrent work-related injury and disease is associated with a substantial social and economic impact. There is an opportunity to reduce the social, health and economic burden of workplace injury by enacting secondary prevention programmes targeted at workers who have incurred an initial occupational injury or disease.
AB - To determine the incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease over the period 1995-2008. Design: Population-based cohort study using data from the state workers compensation system database. Setting: State of Victoria, Australia. Participants: A total of 448 868 workers with an accepted workers compensation claim between 1 January 1995 and 31 December 2008 were included into this study. Of them, 135 349 had at least one subsequent claim accepted for a recurrent injury or disease during this period. Main outcome measures: Incidence of initial and recurrent injury and disease claims and time lost from work for initial and recurrent injury and disease. Results: Over the study period, 448 868 workers lodged 972 281 claims for discrete occurrences of work-related injury or disease. 53.4 of these claims were for recurrent injury or disease. On average, the rates of initial claims dropped by 5.6 , 95 CI (-5.8 to-5.7 ) per annum, while the rates of recurrent injuries decreased by 4.1 , 95 CI (-4.2 to-0.4 ). In total, workplace injury and disease resulted in 188 978 years of loss in full-time work, with 104 556 of them being for the recurrent injury. Conclusions: Recurrent work-related injury and disease is associated with a substantial social and economic impact. There is an opportunity to reduce the social, health and economic burden of workplace injury by enacting secondary prevention programmes targeted at workers who have incurred an initial occupational injury or disease.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612748/pdf/bmjopen-2012-002396.pdf
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002396
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002396
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
SN - 2044-6055
IS - 3
ER -