. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 24.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Ind Med. 2012 Sep 11;55(11):1028–1036. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22110

TABLE II.

Incidence of One or More Hospitalizations 3 Months After and 3 Months Before Occupational Injury (Percent of Families)^a

	All injured workers	Non-severely injured workers	Severely injured workers
After injury (percent)	1.91	1.82	2.38
Before injury (percent)	1.50	1.48	1.62
Absolute difference	0.41	0.34	0.76
Percentage difference	27.33	22.97	46.91
Number of observations	18,411	15,514	2,897

Among families with hospitalizations, 11.9% (before) and 12.5% (after) had more than one hospitalization.