TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - The impact of non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses on mortality
JO  - American journal of industrial medicine
A1  - Boden, Leslie I.
A1  - O'Leary, Paul K.
A1  - Applebaum, Katie M.
A1  - Tripodis, Yorghos
SP  - 1061
EP  - 1069
VL  - 59
IS  - 12
N2  - BACKGROUND: Little research has examined the relationship between non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses, and long-term mortality. <br><br>METHODS: We linked non-fatal injury cases reported to the New Mexico workers' compensation system for 1994-2000 with Social Security Administration data on individual earnings and mortality through 2014. We then derived sex-specific Kaplan-Meier curves to show time to death for workers with lost-time injuries (n = 36,377) and comparison workers (n = 70,951). We fit multivariable Cox survival models to estimate the hazard ratio separately for male and female workers with lost-time injuries. <br><br>RESULTS: The estimated hazard ratio for lost-time injuries is 1.24 for women and 1.21 for men. Ninety-five percent confidence intervals were 1.15, 1.35 and 1.15, 1.27, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Lost-time occupational injuries are associated with a substantially elevated mortality hazard. This implies an important formerly unmeasured cost of these injuries and a further reason to focus on preventing them. Am. J. Ind. Med. 9999:XX-XX, © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<br><br>© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0271-3586
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22632
ID  - ref1
ER  -