How many work‐related injuries requiring hospitalization in British Columbia are claimed for workers' compensation?

Alamgir, Hasanat; Koehoorn, Mieke; Ostry, Aleck; Tompa, Emile; Demers, Paul A.

doi:10.1002/ajim.20308

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“…This result was slightly lower than the 60% of respondents who filed a claim after an eligible work-injury reported by Shannon and Lowe [2002], and significantly lower than the 85% of respondents with hospitalizations in British Columbia sawmill workers reported by Alamgir et al [2006]. However, given the limited information we have on the types of injuries related to work absences in our dataset, or the consequences of work injury (e.g., hospitalizations) it is difficult to directly compare our results with these other reports.…”

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Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work‐related injury or illness in Canada

Smith

Kosny

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2009

American J Industrial Med

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More research is required to understand why almost 50% of respondents with 1-week or longer work-related absences did not report receiving workers' compensation payments following their absence. More importantly, research is required to understand why particular groups of workers are more likely to be excluded from any type of compensation for lost earnings after a work-related injury and illness in Canada.

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Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work‐related injury or illness in Canada

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2009

American J Industrial Med

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“…As there are likely more work-related injuries reaching hospitals than the compensation agency reports [9,10], and hospital records are collected independently, this investigation provided a more comprehensive description of serious work-related injuries. Validity and reliability of administrative and electronically collected databases have been established in some previous studies [37][38][39][40].…”

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“…The methods are described in more detail by Alamgir et al [10,13]. Individual admissions were identified as work-related using ICD-9 external cause of injury codes that indicate place of occurrence [12]; and the responsibility of payment schedule, which identifies workers' compensation as being responsible for payment.…”

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“…Among the information sources available for studying work-related injury, workers' compensation systems are currently considered a major surveillance tool. However, some studies in USA [4][5][6][7][8] and Canada [9,10] have explored underreporting of work-related injuries by the workers' compensation systems. In Canada, the underreporting ranged from 10% to 40% [9,10].…”

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Epidemiology of work-related injuries requiring hospitalization among sawmill workers in British Columbia, 1989–1997

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This study describes hospitalized injuries among workers in British Columbia lumber industry. Between April 1989 and December 1997, from the hospital records of 5,745 male sawmill workers were analyzed for the present study. Work relatedness was determined using either ICD-9 external cause of injury codes, which have a digit-indicating place of occurrence, or a payment field, which can identify workers compensation agency. Poisson regression models were used to analyze differences in hospitalization rates across race, job category, age group, and calendar year. The crude and adjusted rate ratios were calculated along with the 95% confidence intervals (CIs). During the follow-up period, there were 164 work related hospitalization resulting in a rate for work-related hospitalization of 5.38 per 1,000 person years. The higher rates by nature of injury were for dislocation, sprains & strains, open wounds, and fracture of upper limbs. During the study period, the higher rates of injury by causes were machinery related, falls, and struck against. In the multivariate models, there were no statistically significant relationship of injury risk with age and race. In respect to occupation, compared to foremen/supervisor, other sawmills' workers did not have significantly elevated risk of injury. The trend analyses found a significant negative trend (P = 0.004) of injury risk over the whole study period. Knowing the causes and nature of injury and their related risk factors are helpful to employers, compensation officials, and other stakeholders to target preventive measures.

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“…Previous reports from Canada have demonstrated that workers compensation claims do not represent all injuries and illnesses that may be eligible for compensation, with workers with injuries perceived as less severe, employed in precarious employment relationships or with injuries involving a more complex etiology being less likely to file compensation claims 22−25) . Specifically focusing on age differences, a study conducted in BC found that older workers were less likely than their younger counterparts to claim compensation for injuries that resulted in hospitalization 24) . Another Canadian-based study focusing on work-related absences of one week or greater found older workers were less likely to report income from workers' compensation sources in the year of their absence or the year following their absence 23) .…”

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The Relationship between Age and Work Injury in British Columbia: Examining Differences across Time and Nature of Injury

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The Relationship between Age and Work Injury in British Columbia: Examining Differences across Time and Nature of Injury: Peter SMITH, et al. Institute for Work and Health, Canada— Objective The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between age and the lost‐time workers' compensation claims in British Columbia, Canada, over three time periods (1997−98, 2001−02 and 2005−06). We examined if the relationship between age and risk of lost‐time claims is consistent over time and for different nature of injury categories. Methods Secondary analyses of lost‐time workers' compensation claims combined with estimates of person‐years of exposure generated from the Canadian Labour Force Survey were performed. Analyses examined the relationship between age and claim risk using sex‐stratified regression models, adjusting for time period, occupational characteristics and whether the claimant was employed in the goods or service industry. Multiplicative interaction terms were used to examine if the relationship between age and lost‐time claim risk changed over time. Seven separate regression models were generated to explore the variation in the effect of age across nature of injury groups. Results We observed important differences in the relationship between age and risk of injury depending on the nature of injury examined. A negative relationship was observed between age and lost‐time claims for open wounds, while a positive relationship was observed for traumatic injuries to bones, nerves and the spinal cord. We found no evidence that the relationship between age and risk of lost‐time claims changed over time periods. Conclusions The association between age and risk of lost‐time claims depends on the nature of injury under investigation. We found no evidence that the relationship between age and overall lost‐time claim risk has changed over time in British Columbia.

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How many work‐related injuries requiring hospitalization in British Columbia are claimed for workers' compensation?

Abstract: When compared with hospital discharge records, the compensation agency underreported incidents of serious work-related injuries by 10-15% among the sawmill workers.

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Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work‐related injury or illness in Canada

Differences in access to wage replacement benefits for absences due to work‐related injury or illness in Canada

Epidemiology of work-related injuries requiring hospitalization among sawmill workers in British Columbia, 1989–1997

The Relationship between Age and Work Injury in British Columbia: Examining Differences across Time and Nature of Injury

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