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ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2017

Impact of Occupational Injuries on Nonworkers' Compensation Medical Costs of Patient-Care Workers.

Jessica A R Williams, Glorian Sorensen, Dean Hashimoto, Karen Hopcia, Gregory R Wagner, Leslie I Boden

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Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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6 authors.

Jessica A R WilliamsUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas (Dr Williams); Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Sorensen); Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Sorensen); Partners HealthCare, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Hashimoto, Hopcia); Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts (Dr Hashimoto); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Hashimoto); Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Wagner); and Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Boden).
Glorian Sorensen
Dean Hashimoto
Karen Hopcia
Gregory R Wagner
Leslie I Boden

Funding

The Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and WellbeingU19OH008861 · OH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SORENSEN, GLORIAN C · 2007 to 2025
$23.9M
ACL HHS U19OH008861NIOSH CDC HHS U19 OH008861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe aim of this study was to estimate the extent to which work-related injuries contribute to medical expenditures paid for by group health insurance.

methodsAdministrative data on OSHA recordable injuries spanning 2010 to 2013 were obtained for female patient care workers (n = 2495). Expenditures were aggregated group health insurance claims for 3 and 6-month periods before/after injury. Group health insurance plan type, age group, and job category were control variables.

resultsBeing injured is associated with the odds of having expenditures at both 3 months, odds ratio (OR) 2.17 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.61 to 2.92], and 6 months, 2.95 (95% CI 1.96 to 4.45). Injury was associated with $275 of additional expenditures (95% CI $38 to $549) over 3 months and $587 of additional expenditures (95% CI $167 to $1140) over 6 months.

conclusionsInjury was associated with increased odds of positive expenditures and increased expenditures paid for by group health insurance.

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AdultAgedAge FactorsFemaleHealth ExpendituresHumansInsurance, HealthMiddle AgedNursesNursing AssistantsOccupational InjuriesTime FactorsYoung Adult

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PMID28598939
PMCPMC5488856

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