Return to work after COVID-19 infection - A Danish nationwide registry study.
Covid-19
Long-term COVID
Return to work
Severity
Sick leave
Workforce connection
Journal
Public health
ISSN: 1476-5616
Titre abrégé: Public Health
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0376507
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
08
10
2021
revised:
05
11
2021
accepted:
15
12
2021
pubmed:
18
1
2022
medline:
2
2
2022
entrez:
17
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study aimed to explore return to work after COVID-19 and how disease severity affects this. This is a Nationwide Danish registry-based cohort study using a retrospective follow-up design. Patients with a first-time positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test between 1 January 2020 and 30 May 2020, including 18-64 years old, 30-day survivors, and available to the workforce at the time of the first positive test were included. Admission types (i.e. no admission, admission to non-intensive care unit [ICU] department and admission to ICU) and return to work was investigated using Cox regression standardised to the age, sex, comorbidity and education-level distribution of all included subjects with estimates at 3 months from positive test displayed. Among the 7466 patients included in the study, 81.9% (6119/7466) and 98.4% (7344/7466) returned to work within 4 weeks and 6 months, respectively, with 1.5% (109/7466) not returning. Of the patients admitted, 72.1% (627/870) and 92.6% (805/870) returned 1 month and 6 months after admission to the hospital, with 6.6% (58/870) not returning within 6 months. Of patients admitted to the ICU, 36% (9/25) did not return within 6 months. Patients with an admission had a lower chance of return to work 3 months from positive test (relative risk [RR] 0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.94-0.96), with the lowest chance in patients admitted to an ICU department (RR 0.54, 95% CI 0.35-0.72). Female sex, older age, and comorbidity were associated with a lower chance of returning to work. Hospitalised patients with COVID-19 infection have a lower chance of returning to work with potential implications for postinfection follow-up and rehabilitation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35038630
pii: S0033-3506(21)00473-X
doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.12.012
pmc: PMC8786635
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
116-122Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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