A historical cohort of 3014 individuals who sustained a whiplash injury resulting from a motor vehicle accident in Quebec in 1987 was assembled and followed up to six years using data obtained from the computerised databases of the province's universal automobile insurance plan. The prognostic factors that were found to be associated with the time to recovery from whiplash were gender, age, number of dependents, marital status, accident severity, vehicle type, seatbelt use, and the presence of multiple injuries. Factors that were predictive of the risk of recurrence of symptoms were age, number of dependents, and accident severity. None of the prognostic factors studied were found to be useful predictors of the amount of medically-related costs reimbursed by the insurance plan. / The results of this study will be used in a future study involving more numerous and precise medical prognostic factors to assess their role in the management of whiplash patients.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68179 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Harder, Susan |
| Contributors | Suissa, Samy (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001397117, proquestno: AAIMM94437, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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