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Worker Health Glossary Definition (English)
Severity Defined
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"Severity of an injury or illness is estimated by using information provided by employers about the number of days away from work to recuperate from each disabling condition. If, as a result of injury or illness, the worker did not return to work by the end of the survey year, the employer reports an approximate return date that, in conjunction with the date of injury or illness, yields an estimated number of days away from work for that case. Two basic measures of severity are used with the characteristics of days-away-from-work cases: (1) median days away from work (the point at which half of the days-away-from-work cases have a longer duration and half have a shorter duration; and (2) the distribution of days-away-from-work cases involving various lengths of absences from work, ranging from 1 or 2 days to 31 days or longer."
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