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Back pain prevalence in US industry and estimates of lost workdays.
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OBJECTIVES: Back pain is the most common reason for filing workers' compensation claims and often causes lost workdays. Data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed to identify high-risk industries and to estimate the prevalence of work-related back pain and number of workdays lost. METHODS: Analyses included 30074 respondents who worked during the 12 months before the interview. A case patient was defined as a respondent who had back pain every day for a week or more during that period. RESULTS: The prevalence of lost-workday back pain was 4.6%, and individuals with work-related cases lost 101.8 million workdays owing to back pain. Male and female case patients lost about the same number of workdays. Industries in high-risk categories were also identified for future research and intervention, including those seldom studied. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides statistically reliable national estimates of the prevalence of back pain among workers and the enormous effect of this condition on American industry in terms of lost workdays.
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- Authors
- Guo, H. R., Tanaka, S., Halperin, W. E., & Cameron, L. L.
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1999-07
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1029-1035
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
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- W1993390942
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- 402
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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