@article{ref1,
title="Nonwage losses associated with occupational injury among health care workers",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2013",
author="Guzman, Jaime and Ibrahimova, Aybaniz and Tompa, Emile and Koehoorn, Mieke and Alamgir, Hasanat",
volume="55",
number="8",
pages="910-916",
abstract="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:: Most workers (84%; n = 123) had musculoskeletal 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' injury compensation policies and in economic evaluation studies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0b013e31828dc9ea",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e31828dc9ea"
}