Lower education and income predict worse long-term outcomes after injury

CONCLUSION Low educational level is strongly associated with worse long-term outcomes after injury. However, although household income is associated with long-term outcomes, it matters where the threshold is. The impact of different socioeconomic measures on long-term outcomes after trauma cannot be assumed to be interchangeable. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prognostic and epidemiological, level III.
Source: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: 2019 EAST PODIUM PAPER Source Type: research