More than meets the eye: a study of the time lost from work by patients who incurred injuries from corneal foreign bodies.
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.
Alexander
M M
MM
University of Southampton, Southampton Eye Hospital.
MacLeod
J D
JD
Hall
N F
NF
Elkington
A R
AR
D000041:Absenteeism; D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D065306:Corneal Injuries; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors