Table 3 Different sick-leave measures among the individuals with at least one sick-leave spell due to otoaudiological diagnoses during 2005
From: Sickness absence due to otoaudiological diagnoses; a descriptive nationwide study
Sick-leave diagnoses | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All | Otological | Hearing | Vertigo | Tinnitus | |
No. of individuals | 4768 | 1326 | 1012 | 1476 | 983 |
Prevalent sick-leave spells all diagnoses/individual | |||||
Mean/median | 1.2/1.0 | 1.3/1.0 | 1.2/1.0 | 1.3/1.0 | 1.2/1.0 |
Range | 1-11 | 1-7 | 1-6 | 1-11 | 1-5 |
Incident sick-leave spells all diagnoses/individual | |||||
Mean/median | 0.8/1.0 | 1.1/1.0 | 0.6/1.0 | 0.9/1.0 | 0.6/0.0 |
Range | 0-10 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-10 | 0-5 |
No. of sick-leave spells all diagnoses/individual | |||||
1 | 3912 | 1046 | 859 | 1181 | 826 |
2 | 709 | 227 | 135 | 240 | 130 |
>2 | 147 | 53 | 18 | 55 | 27 |
No. of sick-leave days all diagnoses/individual | 122.6/59.0 | 45.0/14.0 | 178.4/151.0 | 107.6/45.0 | 193.8/181.0 |
Mean/median | |||||
No. of sick-leave days due to otoaudiological diagnoses/individual | |||||
1-27 | 1866 | 973 | 160 | 620 | 124 |
28-180 | 1386 | 180 | 388 | 467 | 368 |
181-364 | 728 | 46 | 258 | 167 | 253 |
365 | 610 | 42 | 185 | 161 | 222 |
No. of DP 2005 | 546 | 25 | 221 | 95 | 207 |