Predicting Work-Related Disability and Medical Cost Outcomes: Estimating Injury Severity Scores from Workers' Compensation Data.
Purpose Acute work-related trauma is a leading cause of death and disability among US workers. The research objectives were to assess: (1) the feasibility of estimating Abbreviated Injury Scale -based injury severity scores (ISS) from ICD-9-CM codes available in workers' compensation (WC) medical bi...
| Published in: | Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 19 - 32 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Mar2013
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