title: Nonwage losses associated with occupational injury among health care workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine nonwage losses after occupational injury among health care workers and the factors associated with the magnitude of these losses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inception cohort of workers filing an occupational injury claim in a Canadian province. Worker self-reports were used to calculate (1) the nonwage economic losses in 2010 Canadian dollars, and (2) the number of quality-adjusted days of life lost on the basis of the EuroQOL Index.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most workers (84%; n = 123) had musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs). Each MSI resulted in nonwage economic losses of Can$3131 (95% confidence interval, Can$3035 to Can$3226), lost wages of Can$5286, and 7.9 quality-adjusted days of life lost within 12 weeks after injury. Losses varied with type of injury, region of the province, and occupation. Non-MSIs were associated with smaller losses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These estimates of nonwage losses should be considered in workers' injury compensation policies and in economic evaluation studies.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. jguzman@cw.bc.ca
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guzman
authors.forename: Aybaniz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ibrahimova
authors.forename: Emile
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tompa
authors.forename: Mieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koehoorn
authors.forename: Hasanat
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alamgir
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001955:British Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000191:economics* / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014942:Workers' Compensation