TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Outcome after Minor Traffic Accidents: A Follow-up Study of Orthopedic Patients in an Inner-City Area Emergency Room
JO  - Journal of trauma
A1  - Ponzer, Sari
A1  - Nyrén, Olof
A1  - Ottosson, Carin
A1  - Johansson, S. E.
SP  - 553
EP  - 560
VL  - 58
IS  - 3
N2  - This follow-up study of consecutive traffic accident victims aimed to characterize the variation in recuperation time, to estimate the incidence of delayed recovery, and to identify predictors of nonrecovery 1 and 6 months after the accident. This study included 318 of 811 consecutive patients. Whiplash type neck injuries (48%) were the most common, followed by other minor injuries (38%). Self-perceived recovery was reported by 31% and 56% of the patients at 1 and 6 months, respectively. With control for mutual confounding variables in a multivariate model, injury severity, working status, and education were associated, respectively, with 4.5-fold, 3.2-fold and 2.3-fold gradients in odds of recovery not reported at 1 month. At 6 months, only working status (odds ratio [OR], 3.2) and education (OR, 2.3) were associated with the risk of reporting nonrecovery. The authors concluded that social factors are important predictors of outcome 1 and 6 months after minor traffic accidents.
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SN  - 0022-5282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -