More than meets the eye: a study of the time lost from work by patients who incurred injuries from corneal foreign bodies
| Autor: | J. D. A. Macleod, M. M. Alexander, N. F. Hall, A. R. Elkington |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Eye disease Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Absenteeism Injury prevention medicine Accidents Occupational Humans Prospective Studies Child Prospective cohort study Aged business.industry General surgery Middle Aged medicine.disease eye diseases Sensory Systems Surgery Occupational Diseases Ophthalmology Eye Foreign Bodies Work (electrical) Female sense organs Foreign body business Corneal Injuries Research Article |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Ophthalmology. 75:740-742 |
| ISSN: | 0007-1161 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bjo.75.12.740 |
| Popis: | A prospective study was carried out to establish the time lost from work due to corneal foreign body injury. Data were collected over a 5 month period on a total of 504 patients attending a busy district hospital eye casualty department. The median time lost through injury was 4 hours and 148 patients (30%) took no time off work. Corneal foreign bodies are known to be painful injuries but in spite of this few patients take more than half a day off work. |
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