Sick Leave Due to Ear Diagnoses, a Nationwide Representative Registry of Mexico
| Autor: | Kathrine Jáuregui-Renaud, Ismael Velázquez-Ramírez, Jetzabel de Jetzenay Hernández-Tenorio, María del Carmen Solis-Cruz, Constanza Miriam Aguilar-Jiménez, Ofelia de Jesús Morales-Sánchez, Milliteotl Rincón-Rojas |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Healthcare, Vol 11, Iss 8, p 1112 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 11081112 2227-9032 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/healthcare11081112 |
| Popis: | Sickness absence from work is a measure of both poor health and social functioning. In order to assess the frequency of sick leave due to ear-related diagnoses, we performed a retrospective analysis on the registry of paid sick leave certificates supplied by the main social security institution in Mexico during the years 2018 and 2019, just prior to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We observed that, in the two years, 22,053 sick leave certificates due to ear-related diagnoses were provided to 18,033 workers. The most frequent ear-related diagnoses were those of vestibular disorders (94.64%); among them, the most common diagnosis was Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (75.16%), followed by Labrynthitis and Meniere’s disease (circa 8% each). A total of 4.63% of the diagnoses were related to external and middle ear disorders, and 0.71% were mainly related to hearing. Consistently, the highest cumulative days of sick leave required were given for the group of diagnoses related to vestibular disorders; although the less frequent diagnoses required the highest cumulative days per case (e.g., ototoxicity). During 2018 and 2019, the most frequent diagnoses of ear-related sick leave were due to vestibular diagnoses (particularly Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). |
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