Does the year-end decline in injury risk reflect reporting error?
| Autor: | Brooks Pierce |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology) Occupational injury Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Poison control Human factors and ergonomics medicine.disease Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Under-reporting Injury prevention Medicine Medical emergency business Demography |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 58:519-527 |
| ISSN: | 0271-3586 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajim.22440 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about seasonal patterns in occupational injury risk. Injury risk may vary seasonally due to weather-related factors or changing work exposure. Employer confusion about recordkeeping rules and injury occurrence near year end may also lead to an undercount of year-end injuries. METHODS: Case records from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses and Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries were used to determine seasonality for a variety of injury types. RESULTS: Reported injury rates were higher in summer and lower at year end. Difficult-to-identify injuries showed greater year-end incidence declines. CONCLUSIONS: End-of-year injury declines may have reflected reporting errors for some injury types. The summertime increase in injury risk was broad-based and presumably reflected real seasonal factors. Am. J. Ind. Med. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Language: en |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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