From: Underreporting of workers’ injuries or illnesses and contributing factors: a systematic review
Author, Year | Study design, Measure | Sampling method | Sample characteristics | Worker and workplace setting | Quality appraisal, Certainty | |
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Size | Gender, Race/ethnicity, Mean age | |||||
Weddle, 1996 [4] | CS, Q | Convenient | 368 | F: 56% M:44% Not provided Mean 39 years | Workers in the environmental service department of 5 hospitals in Baltimore | 2, Low |
Haiduven, 1999 [14] | CS, Q | Convenient | 549 | Not provided | Healthcare workers in a public teaching hospital in Santa Clara | 3, Moderate |
Rosenman, 2000 [15] | CS, Q and I | Random | 1,598 | F: 41% M:59% W: 67% B:28% Not provided | General workers in Michigan | 5, High |
Biddle, 2003 [16] | PC I and AD | Random | 1st wave: 1,598 2nd wave: 1,118 | Not provided | General workers in Michigan | 4, Moderate |
Scherzer, 2005 [8] | CS, Q | Convenient | 941 | F: 99% M:1% H: 76% Mean 42 years | Las Vegas hotel room cleaners | 4, Moderate |
Fan, 2006 [17] | CS, Q | Random | 321 | F: 47% M: 53% W:88% Not provided | General workers in Washington, DC | 5, High |
Siddharthan, 2006 [18] | CS (MM), Q and F | Convenient | Q: 15,319 F: 28 | F: 84% M:16% W:70% B:17% Mean 50-59 years | Workers at veteran administration hospitals in Washington, DC | 2, Low |
Gershon, 2007 [19] | CS, Q | Random | 1,156 | F: 87% M:13% Not provided Mean 49 years | Unionized registered nurses (RNs) employed in a wide range of non-hospital settings in New York | 4, Moderate |
Makary, 2007 [20] | CS, Q | Convenient | 699 | F: 31% M: 69% Not provided Not provided | Surgeons in training at residency programs in general surgery certified by the Accreditation Council for Graduation Medical Education | 4, Moderate |
Donnelly, 2013 [21] | CS, Q | Convenient | 336 | Not provided | Residents, fellows, and practicing dermatologists | 3, Moderate |
Lipscomb, 2013 [6] | CS, Q | Convenient | 1,020 | Not provided Not provided Mean 27 years | Carpenter apprentices in 3 union training programs in Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis | 4, Moderate |
Moore, 2013 [22] | CS (MM), Q and F | Convenient | 135 | F:1% M:99% W: 92% Mean 45 years | Union construction workers in Northwest | 2, Low |
Qin, 2014 [23] | CS, Q | Convenient | 2,639 | F:90% M:10% W: 50% B: 37% Not provided | Nursing homes workers in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island | 4, Moderate |
Boden, 2015 [24] | CS, Q and AD | Convenient | 1,572 | F:91% M:9% W: 77% Not provided | Patient care workers | 3, Moderate |
Pompeii, 2016 [25] | CS Q and F | Convenient | 5,385 | F: 72% M:28% W: 45% B: 23% A: 9% H: 7% Not provided | All workers in 6 hospitals in Texas and North Carolina who were likely to interact with patients and/or visitors as part of their job | 4, Moderate |
Deipolyi, 2017 [26] | CS, Q | Random | 908 | F:10% M:90% Not provided Mean 45 years | Interventional radiologist members of the Society of Interventional Radiology | 4, Moderate |
Green, 2019 [27] | RCT, Q | Random | 390 | F:55% M:45% W: 30% H:68% Not provided | Full-time janitors in the Service Employees International Union | 4, Moderate |
Yang, 2019 [28] | CS, Q | Random | 7,395 | F:38% M:61% Not provided Not provided | Residents taking the 2017 American Board of Surgery In Training Examination | 5, High |
Anderson, 2021 [29] | CS, Q and I | Convenient | 620 | F:57% M:43% W:57% H:13% Mean 45 years | Janitors and custodians who are currently employed or had been employed in the past year | 3, Moderate |
Lee, 2021 [7] | CS, Q and I | Convenient | 171 | F: 58% M:42% A:67% H:20% Mean 48 years | Cleaning workers in Northern California | 4, Moderate |