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Citation

Ottosson C, Nyrén O, Johansson SE, Ponzer S. J. Trauma 2005; 58(3): 553-560.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institutet at Stockholm Soder Hospital, Stockholm, SWEDEN.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15761351

Abstract

This follow-up study of consecutive traffic accident victims aimed to characterize the variation in recuperation time, to estimate the incidence of delayed recovery, and to identify predictors of nonrecovery 1 and 6 months after the accident. This study included 318 of 811 consecutive patients. Whiplash type neck injuries (48%) were the most common, followed by other minor injuries (38%). Self-perceived recovery was reported by 31% and 56% of the patients at 1 and 6 months, respectively. With control for mutual confounding variables in a multivariate model, injury severity, working status, and education were associated, respectively, with 4.5-fold, 3.2-fold and 2.3-fold gradients in odds of recovery not reported at 1 month. At 6 months, only working status (odds ratio [OR], 3.2) and education (OR, 2.3) were associated with the risk of reporting nonrecovery. The authors concluded that social factors are important predictors of outcome 1 and 6 months after minor traffic accidents.

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