ArticleIsrael journal of health policy research2020
Socio-economic disparities and returning to work following an injury.
Article in Israel journal of health policy research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Racial and Ethnic Inequities in the Return-to-Work of Workers Experiencing Injury or Illness: A Systematic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Clinical and socioeconomic factors associated with return-to-work after upper and lower limb fractures.BMC public health · 2026Observational
- Occupational health literacy, injury risk, and temporary work disability: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Turkey.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Rates of Employment and Return to Work After Spinal Cord Lesion Onset in Israel.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025Article
- Return to Work After Work-Related Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Incidence and Determinants.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Article
- Hand injuries in Kenya: a chaff cutter menace.F1000Research · 2022Article
- Health disparities in orthopedic trauma: a qualitative study examining providers' perspectives on barriers to care and recovery outcomes.Social work in health careArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundTraumatic injury is one of the main reasons for temporary and permanent occupational disability. The objective of this study was to define the role of socio-economic position on post-injury occupational absenteeism.
methodsThis was a nationwide retrospective cohort study, based on linking The Israeli National Trauma Registry (INTR) and the National Insurance Institute (NII) databases. The study population included 44,740 injured workers (residents of Israel, aged 21-67, hospitalized between 2008 and 2013 and employed prior to injury as salaried workers). Logistic-regression models tested the probability of not returning to work (RTW).
resultsThe majority of the study population (61%) RTW within 1 month following the injury event. Income prior to injury was significantly associated with longer out of work stay, explaining 9% variance. A significant interaction (p value < 0.0001) was found between age and income on out of work stay more than 1 month, 1 year and 2 years. Logistic regression models of out of work stay were conducted separately for all age groups. Lower income was associated with greater chance for out of work stay for more than 1 month; and the gap between the lowest and highest income quartiles was greater among older workers (age 55+), where there was an elevenfold increase in probability of not RTW among casualties from the lowest vs. highest income quartile. In comparison to other population groups, Arabs were at greater odds of longer out of work stay following an injury. Among injured persons recognized by the NII as having occupational injuries, the odds for not RTW within a month, a year and 2 years were respectively 3.9, 2.5 and 2.2 times significantly greater in comparison to employees injured outside the workplace.
conclusionsThis study identified population groups with a high probability of not RTW following an injury requiring hospitalization. Intervention programs for injured employees should promote early rehabilitation and aim to shorten out of work stay. These programs should be ethnically adapted and focus on underprivileged and disadvantaged populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.