Sentence examples for measure of sick from inspiring English sources

DREAM data on sickness benefit is a valid measure of sick leave spells lasting at least 15 days among Danish municipal eldercare workers.

The total length of absence was the most widely used measure of sick leave [ 5, 6, 8- 12, 13, 16] 16], but also prevalence [ 5, 12, 17], frequency of spells [ 5], incidence and duration of sick leave spells [ 16] were used.

Mean, median, and 95% confidence intervals were calculated for measures of sick leave.

The DREAM register offered valid measures of sick leave spells of at least 15 days among eldercare employees.

Pearson correlation coefficient was used for estimation of the correlation between age / time of surgery and all the measures of sick limb.

Such information is seldom available in large population-based studies, and made it possible to present several commonly used measures of sick leave, which facilitate comparison with future studies.

Total numbers of hours, days or weeks with sick leave have also been used, e.g. total number of hours in specific periods after an intervention [ 9], total number of days [ 3, 10, 11] or a similar measure such as total amount of sick leave benefits [ 12].

That we tolerate this incredible carnage, that there is not even much of a national outcry against it, is a measure of how sick our society has become.

The risk of early death from cancer or heart disease was much higher among infected smokers than among noninfected ones, and smoking was more closely linked to early death than was obesity, excess drinking or baseline viral load (a measure of how sick a patient was at diagnosis).

Our measures of sickness absence, self-certified sick leave and GP-certified sick leave are the rates of sick leave in percent of contracted working days.

Although outcomes in RTW research on sick-listed employees with musculoskeletal problems have differed, a measure of time on sick leave until RTW has been fairly consistently deployed.