Nonwage Losses Associated With Occupational Injury Among Health Care Workers

作者：Guzman Jaime^*; Ibrahimova Aybaniz; Tompa Emile; Koehoorn Mieke; Alamgir Hasanat

来源：Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2013, 55(8): 910-916.

DOI：10.1097/JOM.0b013e31828dc9ea

Objective: To examine nonwage losses after occupational injury among health care workers and the factors associated with the magnitude of these losses. Methods: Inception cohort of workers filing an occupational injury claim in a Canadian province. Worker self-reports were used to calculate (1) the nonwage economic losses in 2010 Canadian dollars, and (2) the number of quality-adjusted days of life lost on the basis of the EuroQOL Index. Results: Mostworkers (84%; n = 123) hadmusculoskeletal injuries (MSIs). Each MSI resulted in nonwage economic losses of Can$3131 (95% confidence interval, Can$3035 to Can$3226), lost wages of Can$5286, and 7.9 quality-adjusted days of life lost within 12 weeks after injury. Losses varied with type of injury, region of the province, and occupation. Non-MSIs were associated with smaller losses. Conclusions: These estimates of nonwage losses should be considered in workers%26apos; injury compensation policies and in economic evaluation studies.

• 出版日期2013-8