Stewart etal lost productive work time costs from health conditions in the US Results from the American

•1234 Health and Lost Productive Time in the US Workforce Stewart et alCME Article #1Lost Productive Work Time Costs From HealthConditions in the United States: Results Fromthe American Productivity AuditWalter F. Stewart, PhD, MPH number of studies have described thework impact of common conditionsJudith A. Ricci, ScD, MS1–10 11,12like migraine, low back pain,Elsbeth Chee, ScD A 13,14 15,16arthritis, diabetes, allergic7,17–22David Morganstein, MS rhinitis, gastroesophageal re-23–25 7,12,26–30flux, and depression.Learning Objectives Research on these and other individ-ual health conditions in both popula-• Recall the overall magnitude of lsot productive time (LPT) and its dollartion and specific workplace settingscost as found in the American Productivity Audit, and the respectivehas advanced our understanding ofcontributions of absenteeism and decreased producitivity at work.the cost of health care relative to• Be aware of how LPT varies with a number of demographic and workre-costs from the impact of health con-lated factors.ditions on work. Considerably less• Compare the factors predisposing to LPT for personal and family-related research has focused on measuringreasons. the composite impact of all healthconditions on work. Moreover, al-Abstractthough a number of studies haveThe American Productivity Audit (APA) is a telephone survey of a assessed the impact of health condi-random sample of 28,902 U.S. workers designed to quantify the impact ...