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Follow‐back study of oldest workers with emergency department‐treated injuries
Author(s) -
Castillo Dawn,
Rodriguez Rosa
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199705)31:5<609::aid-ajim16>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - medicine , workforce , occupational safety and health , emergency department , injury prevention , suicide prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , intervention (counseling) , health care , occupational injury , telephone interview , family medicine , gerontology , nursing , social science , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
The aging of the U.S. workforce highlights the need to address issues affecting older workers specifically. Telephone surveys were conducted with injured workers identified through a surveillance system based in a sample of emergency departments in the United States. The 176 interviewed cases correspond to a national estimate of 8.263 (s.e. = 1,258) injuries to workers aged 63 years and older during May 15‐September 30, 1993. Five percent reported limitations in the types or amount of work they could perform prior to the injury. Ninety‐four percent reported familiarity with the task resulting in injury. Fifty‐one percent returned to work without missing any workdays, however, 69% required return visits to a health care provider. Thirty‐four percent reported receiving training in injury prevention. Twenty percent of the injured workers were self‐employed and 43% worked for small businesses. Data from this study provide insight into routinely collected statistics and have implications for future research and intervention efforts. Am. J. Ind. Med. 31:609–618, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.