Hearing difficulties, ear-related diagnoses and sickness absence or disability pension - a systematic literature review

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Table 3 Hearing difficulties in relation to sick leave and disability pension, categorization of included studies according to data reported

	Data on sick leave	Data on disability pension
Sick leave or disability pension due to hearing difficulties	Gustafsson [17], 2011	Ide [29], 2007
	Skøien [18], 2008	Sewell [30], 2004
	Hagberg [21], 2005	Ide [31], 1998
	Bjorne [24], 2003
	Joore [25], 2003
	Holgers [26], 2000
Sick leave or disability pension, irrespective of diagnoses	Carlsson [16], 2011	Gustafsson [17], 2011
	Neuhauser [10], 2008	Skøien [18], 2008
	Bjerlemo [19], 2006	Starzynski [32], 1993
	Gates [22], 2004
	Chau [23], 2004
	Joore [25], 2003
	Andersson [27], 2000
	Rudin [28], 1987

Note: the study by Kramer [20], 2006 reported sick leave due to distress/strain, i.e. not sick leave in general nor due to hearing difficulties.