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Posted 4/1/2013 11:37 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting article and more food for thought about the efficacy of surgery:

"Colectomy did not fully restore the mean or 75th percentile level of work ability, with work loss reaching neither presurgery nor general population levels during three to seven years of follow-up."

www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/pb/36890
Posted 4/2/2013 1:04 AM (GMT 0)
They've also done a study about the burden in the work force with IBD in Canada as well.
Posted 4/2/2013 11:17 AM (GMT 0)
I feel like such studies act against us when it comes to job and such. I have not come across a single study that says that one or the other procedure improves quality of life (and hence the cost in terms of work force.)

This is exactly the paper that I read a couple of days ago. (Sweden has highest number of IBD patients ratio, 1 in 200 or close to it.)
Posted 4/2/2013 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
I'm confused about some stuff here:

"According to the researchers, the annual mean work days lost was higher in patients with UC (65 days) than in the general population (45 days). The annual mean work days lost was 40 days three years prior to colectomy, 141 days the year of colectomy, and 85 days three years after colectomy."

So UC patients who will undergo colectomy in three years miss FEWER days at work than average people? And Swedes miss 45 days of work annually on average? What kind of crazy country are they running up there?

"More patients with UC were disabled three years after colectomy than three years before colectomy (12.4 versus 5.9 percent). In comparison, 7.2 percent of the general population were work disabled."

UC sufferers three years prior to colectomy are less likely to be work disabled than the general population?!

Post Edited (Lacaille) : 4/2/2013 8:38:26 AM (GMT-6)

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