were associated with incomplete recovery of health status: weighted oddsratio (ORw), 4.3 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 1.3–14.6] and ORw, 6.5 [95% CI, 1.9–21.7], respectively.Recovery status correlated significantly with quality of life physical scores (r = 0.46), especially bodypain (r = 0.48) and role/social–physical (r = 0.50) and, to a lesser extent, quality of life psychosocial scores(r = 0.21).