title: The epidemiology and re-employment outcomes of 467 workers with industrial injuries.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the epidemiology and re-employment outcomes of employees with industrial injuries and provide further information for the prevention of industrial injuries and work rehabilitation with the purpose of lower injury rate and cost savings.
  
  
  METHODS
  Learn about epidemiology and re-employment status by investigating 467 employees separately when in hospital and half a year after leaving hospital. The investigation form is designed according to the Classification Criterion of Employee's Casualty Accident (UDC658.382 GB6441-86) and local industrial injury status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Employees with industrial injuries have obvious regional characteristics in aspects such as sex composition, age, position of injury, injury causes, injury type, and vocation before suffering injury, level of education, degree of disability, employment wishes, and actual employment status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Industrial injury presents obvious characteristics in epidemiology. Therefore, it should take respective characteristics into consideration when conducting prevention of industrial injury and work rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Guangzhou, China. kuichengli@163.com
authors.forename: Kuicheng
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yanwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xunwen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation