title: Incidence and cost of depression after occupational injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined if injured workers were more likely than noninjured workers to be treated for depression after an occupational injury and estimated the cost paid by group medical insurance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nearly 367,900 injured and noninjured workers were drawn from the 2005 Thomson Reuters MarketScan data. Descriptive, logistic, and two-part model regression analyses were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The odds of injured workers being treated for depression within the study period were 45% higher than those of noninjured workers (95% confidence interval, 1.17-1.78). The unconditional average cost of outpatient depression treatment was 63% higher for injured workers than for noninjured workers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Injured workers were more likely than noninjured workers to suffer from depression during the study period. Consequently, additional costs are incurred for treating injured workers' depression; these costs were not covered by the workers' compensation system.
authors.affiliation: Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC 20201, USA. hqp0@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Abay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asfaw
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Souza
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003863:Depression / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology