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...

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Publicado en:Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 19 - 32
Autores principales: Sears, Jeanne, Blanar, Laura, Bowman, Stephen, Adams, Darrin, Silverstein, Barbara
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2013
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