@article{ref1,
title="Do work-related lost-time injuries sustained early in employment predict multiple lost-time injuries throughout employment?",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2019",
author="Tao, Xuguang Grant and Kalia, Nimisha and Lavin, Robert A. and Minor, Sebastian A. and Yuspeh, Larry and Leung, Nina and Tsourmas, Nicholas F. and Bernacki, Edward J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To identify a simple surrogate to predict the future risk of multiple lost-time injuries. <br><br>METHOD: Employees of an academic medical center who sustained 5,906 injuries were followed from 1994 to 2017 or 1,046,218 person years. <br><br>RESULTS: The odds ratio of having three or more lost-time injuries during their entire duration of employment was 2.12 (95% CI: 1.60, 2.79) for employees having their first lost-time injury within the first six months of employment vs. those injured after that, controlling for demographics and employment duration. For each increasing year before the first lost-time injury, the probability of having three or more lost-time injuries decreased by 13%. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Employment duration prior to the first lost-time injury may be used to predict future lost-time injuries without detailed information of underlying risk factors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0000000000001683",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000001683"
}