• The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is used as an index of kidney function and the most frequently used diagnostic test to calculate GFR is the serum creatinine level. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study presents the short-term neuropsychological and balance outcomes of four college athletes who sustained mild head injuries of different severity (grade I, grade II, grade III and multiple head injured with a grade II based on American Academy of Neurology guidelines). (nih.gov)
  • Based on GFR, serum creatinine values, and urine output plotted against time of admission, RIFLE, a mnemonic for three levels of severity - Risk, Injury, and Failure, and two outcomes, Loss and End-stage kidney disease, marks progressive degrees of injury in both ICU and non-ICU adult patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hyperglycemia occurs frequently in the pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) population and the occurrence of elevated blood glucose values has been linked to increased mortality and worse neurological outcomes ( 3 - 6 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • 0.3 mL/kg/hr).Measurements and main resultsThe primary outcome was hospital mortality, whereas secondary outcomes included prevalence of acute kidney injury and characterization of acute respiratory distress syndrome risk factors and illness severity patterns, in patients with acute kidney injury versus no acute kidney injury. (ox.ac.uk)
  • While these data certainly describe an important subset of children with the most severe outcomes from their injuries, this shows only a fraction of the range of harm associated with injuries to children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CDC also recommends antiviral medications for the treatment of influenza, because antiviral treatment has shown clinical and public health benefit in reducing illness and lessening severe outcomes of influenza based on evidence from randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, and observational studies during past influenza seasons and during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Treatment with neuraminidase inhibitors has been shown to have clinical and public health benefit in reducing illness and severe outcomes of influenza, as evidenced from randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, and observational studies of oral oseltamivir, inhaled zanamivir, or parenteral peramivir treatment during past influenza seasons and during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • INTRODUCTION: Hypertension and diabetes are associated with increased COVID-19 severity, yet less is known about COVID-19 outcomes across levels of disease control for these conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • however, all levels of severity carry a high mortality rate if appropriate measures to improve oxygenation and minimize the risk of further lung injury are not taken. (wikidoc.org)
  • These levels of severity are based on the degree to which oxygenation relative to the amount of supplemental oxygen is being delivered to the patient via positive pressure ventilation . (wikidoc.org)
  • The reduction in persistent nature of illness with episodic exacerbation and the severity is possible if all modalities are followed in sequence. (carakasamhitaonline.com)
  • Give your name, describe the nature and severity of the medical problem and the location of the victim. (siue.edu)
  • The illness/injury reports filed with the Marine Index Bureau (MIB) for a three-year period (1971, 1972, and 1973) from a matched sample of 20 U.S. flag ships, 10 with Marine Physician's Assistants (MPA) aboard, 10 without, were compared with regard to the nature and severity of reported incidents. (trb.org)
  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been extensively associated with worsened morbidity and is an independent risk factor for mortality in adult and pediatric patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • Injuries are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. (springer.com)
  • Hospital mortality increased from 31% in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients with no acute kidney injury to 50% in mild-moderate acute kidney injury (p ≤ 0.001 vs no acute kidney injury) and 58% in severe acute kidney injury (p ≤ 0.001 vs no acute kidney injury and mild-moderate acute kidney injury). (ox.ac.uk)
  • 0.001) acute kidney injury were independently associated with mortality.ConclusionsThe development of acute kidney injury, even when mild-moderate in severity, is associated with a substantial increase in mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Injuries are widely recognized as a significant source of both morbidity and mortality for children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 3. Palliative care to provide relief of symptoms related to an incurable, progressive illness or injury. (fl.us)
  • Heterogeneous symptoms that may arise following whiplash injuries are difficult to objectify and are normally determined based on self-reported complaints. (springer.com)
  • While it is generally accepted that whiplash injuries can provoke short-term symptoms, the presence of chronic whiplash symptoms, reported by approximately half of the people injured, is more controversial [ 8 ]. (springer.com)
  • However, since fibromyalgia is a subjective disorder, patients are the ultimate source of information on the severity of their symptoms. (medscape.com)
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome is a complex illness defined by unexplained disabling fatigue and a combination of non-specific accompanying symptoms. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CFS is identified by symptoms and disability and by excluding illnesses that could explain them. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sometimes environmental illnesses manifest with nonspecific symptoms. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The two data sets provide insights into the incidences and prevalences of occupational illnesses, but underestimate the burden of job-related illnesses. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite improvements at individual sites, our overall PPG illness and injury (I&I) rate increased in 2022 from 0.26 to 0.30. (ppg.com)
  • We added a safety index to our Gallup pulse surveys in 2022, which measures engagement of our employees in EHS processes. (ppg.com)
  • We re-launched several injury prevention training programs in 2022 that had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including behind-the-wheel driver safety training for new employees, classroom training in large groups and rapid improvement workshops aimed at improving adherence to the implementation of our EHS management system. (ppg.com)
  • Recent evidence suggests significant short-term neurocognitive deficits following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in sports. (nih.gov)
  • However, sequelae of mild head injuries is complicated by many factors including a history of multiple head injuries and injury severity. (nih.gov)
  • Imaging techniques (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging or computerized tomography) and physiological methods are often unable to provide useful and unequivocal information in the instances of mild injuries [ 12 ]. (springer.com)
  • One-thousand nine-hundred seventy-four patients met inclusion criteria: 1,209 (61%) with no acute kidney injury, 468 (24%) with mild-moderate acute kidney injury, and 297 (15%) with severe acute kidney injury. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The SS scale quantifies symptom severity on a 0-12 scale by scoring problems with fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and unrefreshed sleep over the past week each on a scale from 0-3, with 0 = no problem, 1 = a slight or mild problem (generally mild or intermittent), 2 = a moderate or considerable problem (often present and/or at a moderate level), and 3 = a severe, continuous, life-disturbing problem. (medscape.com)
  • Many of these patients are young, healthy people who initially experienced mild or moderate illness. (integrisok.com)
  • We are planning to roll out the index in 2023. (ppg.com)
  • To describe occupational illness data in two large data sets, two national data sets were aggregated, and the numbers, percentages, and rates of cases of occupational illnesses were determined. (cdc.gov)
  • Occupational noise-induced hearing loss is the second most self-reported occupational illness or injury in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • This 2006 mining fact sheet covers statistics of general interest relating to surface and underground metal mining operations, workers, fatalities, nonfatal lost-time injuries, and occupational illness. (cdc.gov)
  • the main measures included the players' age (years), stature (cm) and body mass (Kg) and the incidence (number of injuries/1000 player-hours), mean and median severity (days absence), location (%), type (%) and cause (%) of match and training injuries. (bmj.com)
  • The aim of this study was, therefore, to collect further data using the international consensus procedure for epidemiological studies to characterise the incidence, severity, nature and causes of match and training injuries and to report on the anthropometric characteristics of players competing at the RWC. (bmj.com)
  • Recommendations are made on how the incidence of match and training injuries should be reported and a checklist of issues and information that should be included in published reports of studies of football injuries is presented. (bmj.com)
  • Local injury surveillance systems effectively identify and describe a large majority of pediatric injuries occurring in a community. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The institute does not collect statistics on pediatric injuries but does fund studies that use statistics in developing prevention programs. (nih.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leads efforts to count pediatric injuries, their common causes, their severity, and other details. (nih.gov)
  • For more information on the most common types of pediatric injuries and on ways to prevent certain types of these injuries, visit the CDC Injury Prevention and Control webpage . (nih.gov)
  • Pediatric emergency medicine focuses on the immediate care of infants, children, and adolescents with acute illness or injuries that require urgent medical attention. (nih.gov)
  • The median time lost from employment or study for all injured players was 2 days per playing injury. (nih.gov)
  • The respective median direct (e.g. medical expenses) and indirect (e.g. wages lost) costs associated with the injury were 28.29 pounds and 77.04 pound per playing injury. (nih.gov)
  • The index multiplies the number of cases times the median days lost. (cdc.gov)
  • As part of a larger Pneumoconiosis coalition, we recently received funding from the Alpha Foundation for Improving Mine Safety & Health to explore risk factors and prevalence of mental illness in U.S. coal miners. (nationaljewish.org)
  • It is also a day for businesses to collectively renew their commitment to improve the health and safety of their workplaces, mitigating any future injuries, illnesses, and deaths. (slbdc.com)
  • 2. Establishing procedures for investigating all workplace accidents, safety-related incidents, illnesses, and deaths. (flsenate.gov)
  • 4 So far this season, influenza B virus infections account for about half of hospitalizations reported through CDC's laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalization surveillance network and the majority of reported influenza-associated pediatric deaths ( https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm ). (cdc.gov)
  • During matches, lower-limb muscle/tendon (31.6%) and ligament (15.8%) and, during training, lower-limb muscle/tendon (51.4%) and trunk muscle/tendon (11.4%) injuries were the most common injuries. (bmj.com)
  • While it is not entirely clear whether this association is due to a direct deleterious effect of hyperglycemia or simply a marker of illness severity, there is an increasing body evidence from the adult TBI population that ascribe a putative pathological role to raised blood glucose ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In a retrospective observational study of adult TBI our group has recently demonstrated an association between elevated blood glucose and impaired cerebral pressure-reactivity index (PRx) ( 7 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ), originally known as adult respiratory distress syndrome (to contrast with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome ) is a serious and potentially life-threatening inflammatory lung condition that develops rapidly (usually within 24 to 48 hours) in the setting of sepsis , toxic exposures , adverse drug reactions , trauma , or other critical illnesses. (wikidoc.org)
  • While primary brain injury is unpredictable and irreversible, the sequelae of secondary brain injury may be modified by prevention or minimization of recognized exacerbating systemic insults, such as hypotension, hypoxia, and hyperglycemia ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • With more than 32 million reported COVID-19 cases, nearly 10 percent of the United States population has suffered from the viral illness that has impacted life over the last 17 months. (integrisok.com)
  • The most widely available injury-related statistics are derived from epidemiologic data regarding children who suffer fatal traumatic injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study incorporates disciplines such as El Niño, Severity of illness and Cognitive decline in addition to Cognition. (research.com)
  • Dr. Drag's research interests are in cognitive aging and traumatic brain injury. (stanford.edu)
  • Risk factors and prognosis for COVID-19-induced acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis. (gob.mx)
  • Prognosis for patients with ARDS is generally poor and varies based on the severity of illness, the precipitating insult, and medical comorbidities. (wikidoc.org)
  • Further studies, using a larger sample, would complement the present findings in establishing the severity and cost of amateur rugby league injuries. (nih.gov)
  • As part of its commitment to the welfare of rugby players, the International Rugby Board (IRB) implements injury surveillance studies at all its international tournaments. (bmj.com)
  • 6 Because of the differences in definitions and procedures used in the three studies, comparisons of injury data for trends across tournaments are difficult. (bmj.com)
  • Variations in definitions and methodologies have created differences in the results and conclusions obtained from studies of football (soccer) injuries, making interstudy comparisons difficult. (bmj.com)
  • It has been well documented that variations in definitions and methodologies create significant differences in the results and conclusions obtained from studies of sports injuries. (bmj.com)
  • However, despite continuing calls for common methodologies to be adopted, fundamental differences in definitions and implementation strategies have persisted in published studies of football injuries. (bmj.com)
  • This consensus statement aims to establish definitions and methodology, implementation, and reporting standards that should be adopted for studies of injuries in football and to provide the basis for studies of injuries in other team sports. (bmj.com)
  • A nominal group consensus model approach 13 was adopted for producing a consensus statement on definitions and methodological issues related to studies of football injuries. (bmj.com)
  • NICHD studies different factors related to pediatric injury and trauma, their causes, and different types of care required for treatment and recovery. (nih.gov)
  • Some studies suggest clinical benefit among hospitalized patients and young children with febrile illness even when treatment was started three to five days after illness onset. (cdc.gov)
  • The 2010 ACR diagnostic criteria require physicians to evaluate patients by questioning to determine scores on a widespread pain index (WPI) and a symptom severity (SS) scale. (medscape.com)
  • In the 2010 ACR diagnostic criteria, symptom severity is determined by the physician. (medscape.com)
  • [ 90 ] and physician scoring of symptom severity can lead to underdiagnosis. (medscape.com)
  • The pathophysiology of AKI can be broadly categorized into four main categories: ischemic injury - manifest by low glomerular blood flow or perfusion pressure to the renal capillary system, hypoxic injury to the renal interstitium, inflammation of the renal tubules, or necrosis and apoptosis of the renal parenchyma. (wikipedia.org)
  • f) "Chronic nonmalignant pain" means pain unrelated to cancer which persists beyond the usual course of disease or the injury that is the cause of the pain or more than 90 days after surgery. (fl.us)
  • As many providers are aware, Rural communities have higher rates of chronic diseases and illnesses. (azaleahealth.com)
  • An injury was defined as any pain, disability or injury that occurred as a result of a competition game which caused the player to miss subsequent games. (nih.gov)
  • EMSC is care that aims to reduce children's disability and death from severe illness or injury by increasing awareness and enhancing capabilities among pre-hospital, health systems, healthcare providers, and the general public of the special (physiological and psychological) needs of children receiving emergency medical care. (nih.gov)
  • se realizó un estudio de cohorte observacional retrospectivo en el Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, del periodo de marzo del 2020 a marzo del 2021. (gob.mx)
  • 2020 ). These ED visits encompass a large range of injuries of varying severity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our recent work implicates exposure to respirable silica and silicates in increased prevalence and severity of Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis (PMF), as well as newly recognized accelerated silicosis in stone fabricators. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are not typically designed to gather data to describe a larger group of individuals with similar injuries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Similarly, insurance records fall short on providing enough detail to describe individual injuries well enough to be able to define the characteristics of the injured individual, the forces of energy causing the injury, the environment in which the injury occurred, or the patterns of injuries resulting from the event. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The presence of the MPA served to significantly reduce the number of minor illness/injury reports filed with the MIB without markedly changing the number of reports of major incidents. (trb.org)
  • NIOSH has been conducting research to develop better techniques for predicting the location and severity of multiple-seam interactions. (cdc.gov)
  • During 2021, a total of 15,168 injury visits were analyzed representing 22% of total ED visits (68,834). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ninety-three percent of all illness fatalities were among men. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to the fatalities, there were 277, 217 accepted claims for lost time due to a work-related injury or disease, a large increase from the year before. (slbdc.com)
  • La COVID-19, retó a nuestro sistema de salud, dentro del amplio espectro clínico la lesión renal aguda se presentó como un evento catastrófico, la lesión renal aguda y el riesgo de dependencia posterior a diálisis constituye un problema clínico con alta repercusión en la funcionalidad. (gob.mx)
  • COVID-19 challenged our health system, within the broad clinical spectrum acute kidney injury was presented as a catastrophic event, acute kidney injury and the risk of dependency after dialysis constitute a clinical problem with high repercussions in the funcionality. (gob.mx)
  • To identify risk factors for dialysis dependence after acute kidney injury from COVID-19. (gob.mx)
  • Data shows post-COVID-19 syndrome can happen to anyone infected by the coronavirus regardless of the initial severity. (integrisok.com)
  • With COVID-19 patients, living a sedentary lifestyle during the illness can lead to functional losses. (integrisok.com)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminds clinicians that influenza B viruses can cause severe illness in people of all ages, including children. (cdc.gov)
  • Influenza B viruses can cause severe illness in people of all ages, including children. (cdc.gov)
  • These viruses can also cause severe illness, particularly in adults not originally exposed to currently circulating A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • A severity index was created to assess the overall burden of a disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Three quarters of older adults employed poisoning as the single method of suicide attempt at their index episode, compared with 67% and 59% of the middle-aged and younger groups. (medscape.com)
  • The composite of risk factors and early signs of injury for AKI, renal angina is used as a clinical adjunct to help optimize the use of novel AKI biomarker testing. (wikipedia.org)
  • OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for severe neurologic injury (intraventricular hemorrhage grade 3 or greater and/or periventricular leukomalacia) diagnosed by ultrasound scan of the head among infants born at 300-326 weeks of gestation and compare different screening strategies. (mcmaster.ca)
  • Age, body mass index (BMI) and gender (female) are also risk factors for long haulers. (integrisok.com)
  • Job-related illness data were from Bureau of Labor Statistics documents containing Annual Survey and Census of Fatal Occupational Injury data. (cdc.gov)
  • It causes a respiratory illness, and is to severe and fatal cases. (who.int)
  • Because the worker was not protected by any method of fall arrest protection, they fell and suffered fatal injuries just doing what their day to day job asked of them. (slbdc.com)
  • In some cases, injuries are so severe that they are fatal. (nih.gov)
  • In 2007, the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) devised strata which defined AKI based on time in relation to absolute creatinine increase, percentage increase, or documented oliguria, broadening the window for time of AKI diagnosis and creating an automatic "failure" designation for any patient placed on renal replacement therapy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Definitions of injury, recurrent injury, severity, and training and match exposures in football together with criteria for classifying injuries in terms of location, type, diagnosis, and causation are proposed. (bmj.com)
  • I am a Project Lead/PI on "Exposure Characterization and Identification of Noninvasive Methods for Diagnosis of Deployment-Related Lung Disease" that expands our research on deployment exposure and disease characterization, Lung Clearance Index testing, and quantitative chest CT analysis. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Prior to the development of the Berlin Definition in 2012, a greater emphasis was placed on excluding other potential illnesses prior to making a diagnosis of ARDS. (wikidoc.org)
  • Occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) focuses on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of occupation- and environment-related injuries and illnesses. (msdmanuals.com)
  • CID has demonstrated that injury surveillance systems can assist with reporting new injury patterns while also acting as a stimulus for new research ideas, planning interventions targeting the most at-risk populations, and evaluating the effectiveness of injury prevention interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Data extracted from these systems can then be used to design public health programs to address injury patterns in order to more appropriately target the most at risk populations with preventative measures (Ferguson et al. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Renal angina is a clinical methodology to risk stratify patients for the development of persistent and severe acute kidney injury (AKI). (wikipedia.org)
  • Injury surveillance was implemented at RWC 1995 3 and continued at the 2003 4 and 2007 5 tournaments. (bmj.com)
  • Pesticide-related illness and injury surveillance : a how-to guide for state-based programs. (cdc.gov)
  • The Children's Injury Database (CID) is an injury surveillance system developed to collect data from injury-related visits to our tertiary care pediatric emergency department. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 2014 ). Establishment and maintenance of injury surveillance databases are invaluable instruments for evaluation research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 6-13 Influenza antiviral medications are most effective in treating influenza and reducing complications when treatment is started early (within 48 hours of illness onset). (cdc.gov)
  • Proforma for recording players' baseline information, injuries, and training and match exposures are presented. (bmj.com)
  • Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a clinical syndrome manifested by a rapid or abrupt decline in kidney function and subsequent dysregulation of the body electrolytes and volume, and abnormal retention of nitrogenous waste. (medscape.com)
  • 2019). Protect the ones you love: Child injuries are preventable . (nih.gov)
  • The rate of absenteeism was calculated as: (number of days of absence due to injury and/or illness/workable days) *100. (fincantieri.com)
  • D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. (research.com)
  • Acute- and convalescent-phase serum samples from the index patients were sent to the national reference laboratory of Turkey. (cdc.gov)
  • The index patients and the HCWs were given erythrocyte, fresh frozen plasma, and total blood preparations depending on their homeostasis. (cdc.gov)
  • Presentation and survival of patients with severe acute kidney injury and multiple myeloma: a 20-year experience from a single centre. (ox.ac.uk)
  • 317 patients were included, we performed descriptive statistics, we compared differences between the stages of acute kidney injury, finding a difference in obesity with a frequency of 2.2% in stage 1, 20.82% stage 2 and 14.51% stage 3, with p value = 0.018. (gob.mx)
  • Impact of Early Acute Kidney Injury on Management and Outcome in Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Secondary Analysis of a Multicenter Observational Study. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The impact of acute kidney injury on the ventilatory management of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome was relatively limited, with no differences in arterial CO2 tension or in tidal or minute ventilation between the groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The vast majority of patients with ARDS are managed in an intensive care unit (ICU) , where many will require mechanical ventilation at some point during the course of their illness and recovery. (wikidoc.org)
  • Approximately one third of patients identify a specific event (eg, illness, stress or injury) that precipitated the development of fibromyalgia. (medscape.com)
  • Many patients wait a long time to treat their illness, or don't come into their nearest Rural Health Clinic until they are already sick. (azaleahealth.com)
  • L'objectif de notre étude était d'évaluer la qualité de sa prise en charge chez les patients adultes hospitalisés au CNHUHKM de Cotonou. (bvsalud.org)
  • En dépit de la forte prévalence et de la sévérité de la douleur, près de 2 sur 3 patients (70,1%) d'entre eux étaient au moins modérément satisfaits du traitement antalgique. (bvsalud.org)
  • Children who have severe or life-threatening injuries need critical care, which includes constant monitoring and specialized treatments. (nih.gov)
  • To demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury on subsequent post-injury quality of life (HRQoL) in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • Psychological morbidity and HRQoL (EQ-5D-3L) were measured at recruitment and 1, 2, 4 and 12 months post-injury. (springer.com)
  • Multilevel logistic regression explored relationships between psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury and MID in HRQoL over the 12 months after injury. (springer.com)
  • The aim of this study was therefore to demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity one month post-injury on subsequent quality of life in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • Most of these injured children seen in EDs will have injuries that can be treated in the ED, and they will be discharged home with various levels of physical and psychological morbidity resulting from the injury (Lee et al. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Injuries were classified as minor (one game missed), moderate (two to four games missed) and major (five or more games missed). (nih.gov)
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome and hearing loss accounted for more morbidity, measured by cases and days lost, than any other illness. (cdc.gov)
  • The rate of work-related injuries was calculated as: (number of recordable work-related injuries/hours worked) *1,000,000. (fincantieri.com)
  • b) Each firefighter employer of fewer than 20 firefighter employees identified by the division as having high frequency or high severity of work-related injuries shall establish and administer a workplace safety committee or designate a workplace safety coordinator who shall establish and administer workplace safety activities in accordance with rules adopted under this section. (flsenate.gov)
  • Sometimes an injury (eg, a repetitive motion injury) is caused by a combination of work-related and non-work-related activities. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Obtaining a history, including where an injury occurred and what the patient was doing at the time of injury or illness, usually helps determine the extent to which the cause is work-related. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For neuropsychological testing, Trails A & B, Symbol Digit Modalities Test and Digits Span Backwards were the most sensitive in identifying differences between the injuries. (nih.gov)
  • Identifying and managing these problems, ensuring adequate pain control and facilitating social functioning are key elements in improving HRQoL post-injury. (springer.com)
  • Identifying, analyzing, and interpreting injury data is an integral step toward effective injury prevention practice at the local, state, national and international levels (Zonfrillo et al. (biomedcentral.com)