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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma. 2011 Feb;70(2):285–291. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31820b5b80

Table 3.

Employment outcomes after abdominal wall reconstruction of respondents who worked prior to injury (n = 31).

Outcome Recurrence p-value Time Since Repair p-value

No
n = 23
Yes
n = 8
≤ 5 years
n = 13
> 5 years
n = 18
Worked after repair (%)* 0.49 0.89
 Yes 14 (61) 4 (50) 7 (54) 11 (61)
 No – Not related to hernia 5 (22) 1 (13) 3 (23) 3 (17)
 No – Related to hernia 4 (17) 3 (37) 3 (23) 4 (22)
*

Results are reported as the percent of patients within category from which they were derived, n (%).