Table 3.
Return to work percentages by time point.
| Author (Year) | RTW Specified As | 1 Week | 2 Weeks | 1 Month | 1.5 Months | 2 Months | 3 Months | 4.5 Months | 6 Months | 12 Months | 24 Months | Not Specified/Various |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackland (2013) [48] | Return to full duties | 30.9% | 43.2% | 57.4% | 71.0% | 79.6% | 89.5% | |||||
| Biering-Sorensen (2014) [50] | RTW | 42.0% | 50.6% | 56.0% | ||||||||
| Borchgrevink (1996) [47] | Return to part-time and full-time work | 72.5% | ||||||||||
| Buitenhuis (2009) [52] | Return to paid employment | 79.4% | 77.2% | 76.0% | ||||||||
| Dufton (2006) [40] | RTW | 46.6% | ||||||||||
| Ettlin (1992) [46] | Return to partial and full employment | 71.4% | 100% | 100% | ||||||||
| Geldman (2008) [57] | Return to usual work | 50.0% | 79.8% | |||||||||
| Gopinath (2015) * [42] | RTW | 85.3% | 82.3% | |||||||||
| Gopinath (2017) * [41] | RTW | 82.0% | ||||||||||
| Gray (2018) [29] | Sustained RTW | 84.0% | ||||||||||
| Gun (2005) [59] | RTW | 90.0% | ||||||||||
| Holm (1999) [62] | Return to full work capacity | Year 1989: 63.0% Year 1994: 69.0% |
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| Hours (2014) [31] | RTW | 90.0% | ||||||||||
| Kasch (2001) [64] | RTW | 92.2% | ||||||||||
| Kasch (2011) [65] | RTW | 91.0% | ||||||||||
| Kinzel (2006) [45] | RTW | 36.0% | ||||||||||
| Mankovsky-Arnold (2017) [69] | RTW | 27.0% | ||||||||||
| Nguyen (2019) [32] | RTW | Low risk: 91.0% High risk: 54.6% |
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| O’Hara (2018) [72] | RTW | 63.0% | ||||||||||
| Pieske (2010) [73] | Able to work | 90.1% | 96.3% | |||||||||
| Prang (2015) [74] | RTW | 74.0% | ||||||||||
| Rosenthal (1979) [77,85] | RTW | 50.0% | ||||||||||
| Sarrami (2016) [78] | RTW | 37.0% | ||||||||||
| Schreiber (2009) [79] | Return to employment | 74.2% | ||||||||||
| Scuderi (2005) [80] | RTW | 79.3% |
Abbreviations: MSD, musculoskeletal disorders; RTW, return to work; WAD, whiplash-associated disorder. * Same cohort. Gopinath (2015) will be used for the analysis.