Capture–Recapture Estimates of Nonfatal Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

Boden, Leslie I.; Ozonoff, Al

doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.11.003

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“…OSHA logs, consisting of employers' reports, provide one measure of the prevalence of work-related injuries or diseases, although the validity and completeness of these data have been questioned repeatedly, both by a recent GAO report and in other studies that compare BLS data to other sources [Rosenman et al, 2006;Boden and Ozonoff, 2008;GAO, 2009]. The OSHA logs also provide no indication of the extent of resulting impairment or disability.…”

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The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

Spieler

Burton

2012

American J Industrial Med

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Background Previous studies suggest that many persons with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers' compensation benefits. Methods Data from surveys of persons with disabilities were used to estimate the proportion of disability due to work-related injuries and diseases. Studies examining the proportion of workers with work-related disability who received workers' compensation benefits were reviewed. Legal and other factors explaining the lack of receipt of workers' compensation benefits were examined. Results Many workers with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers' compensation benefits. The obstacles to compensation include increasingly restrictive rules for compensability in many state workers' compensation programs. Conclusions A substantial proportion of persons with work-related disabilities do not receive workers' compensation benefits. The solutions to this problem, such as providing healthcare to workers regardless of the source of injuries or diseases, are complicated and controversial, and will be difficult to implement.

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The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

Spieler

Burton

2012

American J Industrial Med

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“…In both administrative data sources, there is evidence that the relative risk of a work-related injury in the evening and night hours is higher for older men (aged 35-64) than younger men (aged [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] (table 2). This pattern may reflect age-related declines in capacity to adapt to non-standard work hours at older ages.…”

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195 Work injury risk by time of day in two population-based data sources

Mustard¹,

Chambers²,

McLeod³

et al. 2013

Occup Environ Med

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Objective To estimate the rate of work injury over the 24 h clock in Ontario workers over 5 years (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008). Methods A cross-sectional, observational study of work-related injury and illness was conducted for a population of occupationally active adults using two independent data sources (lost-time compensation claims and emergency department encounter records). Hours worked annually by the Ontario labour force by time of day, age, gender and occupation were estimated from population-based surveys.Results There was an approximately 40% higher incidence of emergency department visits for work-related conditions than of lost-time workers' compensation claims (707 933 emergency department records and 457 141 lost-time claims). For men and women and across all age groups, there was an elevated risk of work-related injury or illness in the evening, night and early morning periods in both administrative data sources. This elevated risk was consistently observed across manual, mixed and non-manual occupational groups. The fraction of lost-time compensation claims that can be attributed to elevated risk of work injury in evening or night work schedules is 12.5% for women and 5.8% for men. Conclusions Despite the high prevalence of employment in non-daytime work schedules in developed economies, the work injury hazards associated with evening and night schedules remain relatively invisible. This study has demonstrated the feasibility of using administrative data sources to enhance capacity to conduct surveillance of work injury risk by time of day. More sophisticated aetiological research is needed to understand the specific mechanisms of hazards associated with non-regular work hours.

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“…This is common practice in public health surveillance studies when neither source can be considered complete. 21,22,33 However, the 88% NCAA ISS capture rate may be an underestimate if the non-NCAA ISS data source includes many injury events that were false-positives (events recorded as time loss that were, in fact, not time-loss injuries). With this possibility in mind, we went to considerable lengths to establish that all the injury events reported in the non-NCAA ISS data were true time-lost events.…”

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“…[15][16][17] Capture-recapture methods have been applied to cancer, 18 infectious diseases, 19 cardiovascular disease, 20 and occupational injuries 21,22 ; however, they have not been not widely used in sport injury analyses. The analysis is described further in the "Statistical Analysis: Capture-Recapture Methods" section.…”

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Validity of Soccer Injury Data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Injury Surveillance System

Kucera

Bell

DiStefano

et al. 2011

Journal of Athletic Training

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Context:Few validation studies of sport injury-surveillance systems are available.Objective: To determine the validity of a Web-based system for surveillance of collegiate sport injuries, the Injury Surveillance System (ISS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA).Design: Validation study comparing NCAA ISS data from 2 fall collegiate sports (men's and women's soccer) with other types of clinical records maintained by certified athletic trainers.Setting: A purposive sample of 15 NCAA colleges and universities that provided NCAA ISS data on both men's and women's soccer for at least 2 years during 2005-2007, stratified by playing division.Patients or Other Participants: A total of 737 men's and women's soccer athletes and 37 athletic trainers at these 15 institutions.Main Outcome Measure(s): The proportion of injuries captured by the NCAA ISS (capture rate) was estimated by comparing NCAA ISS data with the other clinical records on the same athletes maintained by the athletic trainers. We reviewed all athletic injury events resulting from participation in NCAA collegiate sports that resulted in 1 day or more of restricted activity in games or practices and necessitated medical care. A capture-recapture analysis estimated the proportion of injury events captured by the NCAA ISS. Agreement for key data fields was also measured.Results: We analyzed 664 injury events. The NCAA ISS captured 88.3% (95% confidence interval = 85.9%, 90.8%) of all time-lost medical-attention injury events. The proportion of injury events captured by the NCAA ISS was higher in Division I (93.8%) and Division II (89.6%) than in Division III (82.3%) schools. Agreement between the NCAA ISS data and the non-NCAA ISS data was good for the majority of data fields but low for date of full return and days lost from sport participation.Conclusions: The overall capture rate of the NCAA ISS was very good (88%) in men's and women's soccer for this period.Key Words: capture-recapture analysis, injury epidemiology, time loss, collegiate athletes Key Points• Overall, the capture rate of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System was 88% for men's and women's soccer injuries during the study period.• Thus, this injury-surveillance system is capable of providing reliable and valid injury statistics, at least for men's and women's soccer.

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Capture–Recapture Estimates of Nonfatal Workplace Injuries and Illnesses

Cited by 163 publications

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The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

195 Work injury risk by time of day in two population-based data sources

Validity of Soccer Injury Data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Injury Surveillance System

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