Sickness absence from work among persons with new physician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome: A population-based matched-cohort study. Atroshi, I., Zhou, C., Joud, A., Petersson, I. F., & Englund, M. PloS one, 10(3):e0119795, 2015. ![Sickness absence from work among persons with new physician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome: A population-based matched-cohort study. [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome is common among employed persons. Data on sickness absence from work in relation to carpal tunnel syndrome have been usually based on self-report and derived from clinical or occupational populations. We aimed to determine sickness absence among persons with physician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome as compared to the general population. METHODS: In Skane region in Sweden we identified all subjects, aged 17-57 years, with new physician-made diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome during 5 years (2004-2008). For each subject we randomly sampled, from the general population, 4 matched reference subjects without carpal tunnel syndrome; the two cohorts comprised 5456 and 21,667 subjects, respectively (73% women; mean age 43 years). We retrieved social insurance register data on all sickness absence periods longer than 2 weeks from 12 months before to 24 months after diagnosis. Of those with carpal tunnel syndrome 2111 women (53%) and 710 men (48%) underwent surgery within 24 months of diagnosis. We compared all-cause sickness absence and analyzed sickness absence in conjunction with diagnosis and surgery. RESULTS: Mean number of all-cause sickness absence days per each 30-day period from 12 months before to 24 months after diagnosis was significantly higher in the carpal tunnel syndrome than in the reference cohort. A new sickness absence period longer than 2 weeks in conjunction with diagnosis was recorded in 12% of the women (n = 492) and 11% of the men (n = 170) and with surgery in 53% (n = 1121) and 58% (n = 408) of the surgically treated, respectively; median duration in conjunction with surgery was 35 days (IQR 27-45) for women and 41 days (IQR
@article{atroshi_sickness_2015,
title = {Sickness absence from work among persons with new physician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome: {A} population-based matched-cohort study.},
volume = {10},
issn = {1932-6203 1932-6203},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0119795},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0119795},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome is common among employed persons. Data on sickness absence from work in relation to carpal tunnel syndrome have been usually based on self-report and derived from clinical or occupational populations. We aimed to determine sickness absence among persons with physician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome as compared to the general population. METHODS: In Skane region in Sweden we identified all subjects, aged 17-57 years, with new physician-made diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome during 5 years (2004-2008). For each subject we randomly sampled, from the general population, 4 matched reference subjects without carpal tunnel syndrome; the two cohorts comprised 5456 and 21,667 subjects, respectively (73\% women; mean age 43 years). We retrieved social insurance register data on all sickness absence periods longer than 2 weeks from 12 months before to 24 months after diagnosis. Of those with carpal tunnel syndrome 2111 women (53\%) and 710 men (48\%) underwent surgery within 24 months of diagnosis. We compared all-cause sickness absence and analyzed sickness absence in conjunction with diagnosis and surgery. RESULTS: Mean number of all-cause sickness absence days per each 30-day period from 12 months before to 24 months after diagnosis was significantly higher in the carpal tunnel syndrome than in the reference cohort. A new sickness absence period longer than 2 weeks in conjunction with diagnosis was recorded in 12\% of the women (n = 492) and 11\% of the men (n = 170) and with surgery in 53\% (n = 1121) and 58\% (n = 408) of the surgically treated, respectively; median duration in conjunction with surgery was 35 days (IQR 27-45) for women and 41 days (IQR},
language = {eng},
number = {3},
journal = {PloS one},
author = {Atroshi, Isam and Zhou, Caddie and Joud, Anna and Petersson, Ingemar F. and Englund, Martin},
year = {2015},
pmid = {25803841},
pmcid = {PMC4372214},
keywords = {*Physicians, Adolescent, Adult, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome/*diagnosis/*epidemiology/surgery, Cohort Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Sex Factors, Sick Leave/*statistics \& numerical data, Sweden/epidemiology, Young Adult},
pages = {e0119795},
}
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