Claims-Based Surveillance to Identify Injury Precursors

Details

• Personal Author:
  Tollerud DJ
• Description:
  The purpose of this project is to improve workplace safety and health through research aimed at developing a cost-effective claims-based injury and illness surveillance system which has broad applicability. A database and prospective record linking system will be used to create a workplace surveillance program. In Specific Aim I, procedures and protocols will be developed to transform Workers' Compensation Claims data into a surveillance system for work-related injuries and illnesses. Reports which track workplace injuries and illness events by department will be generated and provided to the employer. In Specific Aim II, the degree to which the claims-based surveillance system under-reports workplace injuries and illnesses will be determined. Workers' compensation claims databases generally include detailed information only on injuries sufficiently severe to require medical treatment. Occupational injury and illness rates and characteristics identified through the surveillance system will be compared with a more comprehensive Employee Injury Report used by the City, to assess the magnitude of under-reporting by the claims-based system. In Specific Aim III, claims-based data will be used to develop and test methods to identify patterns which predict precursor events that could be addressed through primary prevention actions. Time series models will be applied on medical claims data collected under this study to explore the issue of identifying important indicators of injury events usable by employers to inform them of changes in workplace safety. In Specific Aim IV, employer guidelines will be developed for using their workers' compensation medical claims databases for surveillance activities. This will result in an explicit product to guide employers in translating their workers' compensation claims data into a feasible, low-cost and functional surveillance program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Injuries Injury-prevention Medical-treatment Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Safety-measures Surveillance-programs Work-environment
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024528
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-109896
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R01-OH-004020, 2004 Mar; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc., Louisville, Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20030929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5a334ccc88d94122759a696429b48bee4930e5bed913f05275c2187c80394b952aea5cd4c8c4e195f839024a01252e5d5a7aca381d2dbdbbdf729151eab8f04c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218233/cdc_218233_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 189.56 KB ]