| Plain Language Summary: |
Plain Language Title
Return go back to work after burn injury: A systematic planned out, orderly, regular review
Review go over, check Question
This systematic planned out, orderly, regular review go over, check asks three questions about return go back to work (RTW) after a burn injury: (1) How many people return go back to work after a burn injury, and how soon do they return? (2) What factors impact RTW after a burn injury? (3) What should be the focus of future studies in this area?
Background
RTW after a burn injury comes with many challenges, such as pain or concerns about appearance. This review go over, check summarizes the literature on RTW after a burn injury, with the aim of identifying barriers to RTW. Future research could focus on interventions to improve RTW outcomes.
Search Date
The review go over, check included studies published between 1970 and 2012.
Study Characteristics
The review go over, check included peer-reviewed studies that addressed barriers to RTW for individuals with burn injuries. Studies were excluded if they were reviews, editorials, or opinions, or if they did not report on specific work activities. Studies with fewer than 10 participants were also excluded. The initial first, earliest, basic search turned up 216 studies, and 26 met the final inclusion requirements. needs, regulations
NIDILRR Affiliation
H133A060070: Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC); H133A070045: Johns Hopkins University Burn Injury Rehabilitation Model System (JHU-BIMS); H133A070047: University of Washington Burn Model System
Key Results
Among burn survivors who were employed before their injury, most return go back to some form of work within 3.3 years. However, nearly 28% of all burn survivors never return go back to any form of employment. Several many factors are associated with RTW for burn survivors, although the current evidence does not allow us to determine figure out, decide, find out, test which factors are most important. The location place, spot of a burn (such as the hand or face) appears to be an important factor. cause, reason Individuals with larger or more severe strong, serious, harmful, dangerous, very bad burns tend to take more time away from work. Other barriers to RTW include advanced age, chronic constant, never ending, does not go away, long term, lasting a long time, long-lasting pain, preexisting health conditions, and various social or psychological factors (for instance, financial trouble or relationship problems). In addition, certain jobs may be harder to perform do, carry out, act with an injury, and people may avoid do not, shun returning to work if they were injured at their workplace. Some evidence suggests that other job-related factors, such as healthcare coverage, are related to RTW outcomes.
Use of Statistics
When possible, the review go over, check combines statistics across studies to provide give, offer, send, supply an estimate of the percentage of people who return go back to work within a certain amount of time or of the typical amount of time spent away from work. This approach allows the authors to compare RTW outcomes between people in different circumstances (for instance, between people with more or less severe strong, serious, harmful, dangerous, very bad burns). However, the types of statistics reported in each study are often inconsistent, so the review go over, check cannot always combine estimates across studies. In these cases, the authors report findings for individual person, you, man, woman, one studies.
Quality of Evidence
The quality of the evidence is uncertain. The authors often drew broad conclusions from studies that reported evidence in inconsistent ways. The review go over, check primarily focused on summarizing the factors that seem to be related to RTW outcomes, not on assessing whether these factors actually cause better or worse outcomes. The authors noted that there is a lack of studies about interventions that could improve RTW outcomes.
|
