Rigshospitalet, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Copenhagen Limb Lengthening and Bone Reconstruction Unit, Denmark (Dr. Kähler Olesen, Dr. Nygaard, and Dr. Singh); the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Orthopedic Service, New York City, NY (Dr. Prince); the Sinai Hospital, Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, International Center for Limb Lengthening, Baltimore, MD (Dr. Herzenberg); the Springfield Clinic, Springfield, IL (Dr. Gardner); the Nuffield Orthopedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, UK (Dr. McNally); and the Children's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (Dr. Green).
This study employed analysis of workers' compensation (WC) claims in the landscaping services industry to identify occupational factors associated with claims from workers of different ages....
Private sector claims for 2005 to 2017 to the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (OHBWC) and their free-text descriptions were used along with data from the US Census Bureau American Community Surve...
Although the claim rate for younger workers was higher than that for older workers overall (593 vs 261 per 10,000 full-time equivalent employees, P < 0.001), claims from older workers had higher nonze...
Analysis of WC claim rates shows significant differences between claims in different age groups. These differences can be used to target safety interventions for the greatest impact....
Workers of color experience a disproportionate share of work-related injuries and illnesses (WRII), however, most workers' compensation systems do not collect race and ethnicity information, making it...
To estimate WRII by race/ethnicity, we applied the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocode (BISG) method to surname and residential address data among all Washington workers' compensation claims filed for i...
Black/African Americans had the highest rates of WRII claims across all industry and occupational sectors. Hispanic/Latino WRII claimants also had higher rates than Whites and Asian/Pacific Islanders ...
The high rates of injury we report by racial/ethnic categories is a cause for major concern. Nearly all industry and occupation-specific rates of workers' compensation claims are higher for Black/Afri...
We evaluated the prevalence of opioid prescriptions after injury and associated characteristics among workers receiving workers' compensation for a lost work time injury....
Injured workers identified in Michigan's Workers' Compensation records from 2016 to 2018 were linked to the opioid prescription history in the Michigan Automated Prescription System....
Among the 46,934 injured workers with paid claims, the prevalence of receiving an opioid prescription, morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per prescription, number of opioid prescription and probabil...
Even though opioid prescribing patterns generally decreased from 2016 to 2018 (64.5-52.8%), injured workers in Michigan had a higher prevalence of opioid prescription after injury, than those reported...
Work-related injuries can harm mental health and affect other facets of injured workers' lives. Clinicians must be aware of the problem of emotional distress and treat the whole patient after a workpl...
Workers' compensation injuries entail burdensome financial and social costs. This study's objective was to describe cost and frequency of workplace injuries in aviation manufacturing in the state of K...
Workers' compensation insurance and reporting are required in the state of Kansas. Data were provided by the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) and included all closed workers' compensation claims enta...
Aviation claims entailed a median total cost of $26,941 and represented 8% of all closed claims filed in the state from 2014 to 2022. The grand total direct cost over the nine-year period was $75,404,...
Aviation manufacturing is a key industry in Kansas and this study is the first known to describe costs and frequencies of workplace injuries in the sector using workers' compensation data....
This guide to the most problematic and costly injuries in aviation manufacturing helps practitioners prioritize prevention strategies to most effectively reduce workplace injury and helps safety and h...
Firefighters are at high risk for nonfatal and fatal occupational injuries. While some past research has quantified firefighter injuries using various data sources, Ohio workers' compensation injury c...
Public and private firefighter claims, including volunteer and career firefighters, from Ohio's workers' compensation data for 2001-2017 were identified based on occupational classification codes and ...
33,069 firefighter claims were identified and included. Most claims were medical-only (66.28%, <8 days away from work) and involved males (93.81%) aged 25-54 years (86.54%). While the task during inju...
This study provides a preliminary basis for the development of focused firefighter injury prevention programming and training. Obtaining denominator data, enabling rate calculation, would strengthen t...
Truck drivers are a vulnerable population due to the high number of workplace injuries and fatalities predominant in their occupation. In Australia, the road freight transportation industry has been i...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of healthcare resources dedicated to patients with WC after common foot or ankle procedures compared with a procedure-matched control group....
A retrospective review was performed of patients with WC and without WC undergoing foot and ankle procedures. Measures of healthcare burden included clinical communications, documents, prescriptions, ...
Collectively, 142 patients met the inclusion criteria. Patients with workers' compensation had increased office communication encounters (P < 0.001), processed documents (P < 0.001), medication prescr...
When undergoing common foot and ankle orthopaedic procedures, patients with WC demonstrated increased healthcare utilization of resources. This included more office staff work burden dedicated to pati...
To identify and characterise COVID-19 workers' compensation claims in healthcare and other industries during the pandemic in Victoria, Australia....
We used workers' compensation claims identified as COVID-19 infection related from 1 January 2020 to 31 July 2022 to compare COVID-19 infection claims and rates of claims by industry and occupation, a...
Of the 3313 direct and indirect COVID-19-related claims identified, 1492 (45.0%) were classified as direct COVID-19 infection accepted time-loss claims and were included in analyses. More than half (5...
COVID-19 infection claims differed by industry, occupational group, severity and timing and changes coincided with different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Occupational surveillance for COVID-19 cas...
We assessed the potential effect of the preoperative symptom duration on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for workers' compensation (WC) patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar in...
WC patients who had undergone primary, elective MIS-TLIF with recorded symptoms duration data available were included. Two cohorts were generated: those with a shorter (lesser) duration (LD; symptom d...
A total of 145 patients were included, with 76 in the PD cohort and 69 in the LD cohort. The LD cohort demonstrated improvement in the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system for phys...
Independently of the preoperative symptom duration, WC patients demonstrated improvement in physical function and pain after MIS-TLIF. Patients with a longer symptom duration reported inferior functio...
