The health status of people claiming compensation for musculoskeletal injuries following road traffic crashes is not altered by an early intervention programme: A comparative study

Littleton, Susannah; Hughes, David; Gopinath, Bamini; Robinson, B J; Poustie, Stephanie J; Smith, Paul N.; Cameron, Ian D.

doi:10.1016/j.injury.2014.05.011

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“…Compensation claim is a thoroughly investigated factor showing a negative association with the QoL following an RTA in many studies ( 5 , 7 , 11 , 27 , 34 , 35 ). In addition to the negative association of compensation claim with the QoL, this study showed that obtaining compensation was associated with a lower score of RE.…”

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Quality of life in road traffic accident survivors

Kovačević

Miškulin

Ličanin

et al. 2020

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

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IntroductionThe loss of quality of life is the major consequence following a non-fatal road traffic accident (RTA). Previous research regarding quality of life did not include uninjured RTA survivors. The research aim was thus to evaluate the quality of life of the RTA survivors regardless of whether or not they sustained injures, and to identify factors associated with decreased quality of life after the RTA.MethodsA cohort of 200 RTA survivors with and without injuries was followed after experiencing an RTA. The quality of life and mental health outcomes were assessed 1 month following RTA. A vast range of sociodemographic, pre-RTA health-related, RTA related, RTA injury-related, compensation-related factors and mental health outcomes were investigated.ResultsDecreased quality of life following an RTA showed an association with the low socioeconomic status of the RTA victims, poor pre-RTA health, injury-related factors, compensation-related factors and psychological disorders after the RTA.ConclusionsIdentifying predictors of decreased quality of life following an RTA will enable planning interventions targeting the most important factors that influence recovery of RTA victims. Assessing and recording of self-reported quality of life should be a part of the routine protocol in RTA survivors’ health-care.

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“…Most of the studies investigating the QoL of RTA survivors used the SF-36 questionnaire ( 4 , 5 , 14 , 23 , 28 , 33 , 34 , 35 ) or its shortened version. the Short Form – 12 (SF-12) ( 6 , 8 , 9 , 12 , 13 , 26 , 27 ), while a minority used other available instruments for assessing QoL ( 7 , 26 , 31 ).…”

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Quality of life in road traffic accident survivors

Kovačević

Miškulin

Ličanin

et al. 2020

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

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“… 21 We need to caution, however, that all study participants were engaged in the compensation process, and previous research has shown that persons who claimed compensation had overall worse health status and impeded recovery following mild to moderate injuries in the longer term. 1 22 Therefore, it is not possible to conclusively delineate whether the negative effect on physical well-being is due to hospitalisation per se, or due to the possible negative effects of engagement with the compensation process, or both.…”

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Comparison of health outcomes between hospitalised and non-hospitalised persons with minor injuries sustained in a road traffic crash in Australia: a prospective cohort study

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ObjectivesThis prospective cohort study aimed to investigate whether there are differences in health outcomes among persons with mild or moderate injuries who were hospitalised compared with those not hospitalised following a road traffic crash.SettingSydney Metropolitan, New South Wales, Australia.ParticipantsPersons aged ≥18 years involved in a motor vehicle crash were surveyed at baseline (n=364), and at 12 (n=284) and 24 months (n=252). A telephone-administered questionnaire obtained information on a range of socioeconomic, and preinjury and postinjury psychological and heath characteristics of all participants.Primary outcome measureParticipants who reported admission to hospital for 24 h or more (but less than 7 days) after the crash were classified as being hospitalised; those admitted for less than 24 h were classified as non-hospitalised.ResultsAround 1 in 5 participants (19.0%) were hospitalised for ≥24 h after the crash. After adjusting for age and sex, hospitalised participants compared with those not hospitalised had approximately 2.6 units (p=0.01) lower Short Form-12 Physical Component Summary (SF-12 PCS) scores (poorer physical well-being) and approximately 4.9 units lower European Quality of Life visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) scores (p=0.05), 12 months later. After further adjusting for education level, whiplash, fracture and injury severity score, participants who were hospitalised had approximately 3.3 units lower SF-12 PCS (p=0.04), 12 months later. The association with EQ-VAS did not persist after multivariable adjustment. No significant differences were observed between the 2 groups in health outcomes at 24-month follow-up.ConclusionsThese findings indicate that long-term health status is unlikely to be influenced by hospitalisation status after sustaining a mild/moderate injury in a vehicle-related crash.

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“…Is dat werkelijk het geval of is hier sprake van een niet-getoetste hypothese? Er is toenemend bewijs dat betrokkenheid in een letselschadeclaim en langere blootstelling aan de claimprocedure een prognostische indicator is voor een slechter herstel en negatieve gezondheidsuitkomsten bij mensen die betrokken zijn bij een verkeersongeval (Harris et al 2005(Harris et al , 2008Littleton et al 2014;Grant et al 2014;Murgatroyd et al 2015). De richting van de associaties is echter niet bekend (Spearing et al 2012).…”

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