Incidence of Workers’ Compensation Claims in Opioid-Using Truck Drivers

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• Personal Author:
  Handy R ; Scholl LS ; Thiese MS
• Description:
  Objective: This study examines the relationship between opioid use prevalence and subsequent filing of workers' compensation claims. Methods: A retrospective cohort study design was utilized to examine data from drivers' initial commercial driver medical exam, employment data, and workers' compensation claims data. Results: Data from 57,733 over 7 years were analyzed. Drivers who reported opioid use at their initial medical exam visit filed subsequent workers' compensation claims 1.81 times sooner (p = 0.0001; 95% CI 1.34, 2.44) than drivers who did not report opioid use at their CDME when controlling for age, gender, BMI, and diastolic blood pressure. Conclusions: These findings provide information that may aid in improving regulations to control for incidents, training programs to inform professional drivers of factors that increase accident risk and educating prescribers about increased risks of injury among opioid-using drivers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Cohort Studies Epidemiology Occupational Health Safety Transportation
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Truck Driver Cohort Cohort Studies Commercial Driver Commercial Driver Medical Exam Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver DOT Exam Drugs Hazard Ratio Medical Fitness Evaluation Motor Vehicles Opioid Opioid Use Retrospective Cohort Truck Drivers Trucker Trucking Workers Compensation Workers Compensation Claim

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  314-319
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063899
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2022 Apr; 64(4):314-319
• Contact Point Address:
  Matthew S. Thiese, Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational & Environment Health, School of Medicine, University of Utah, 250 East 200 South, Suite 100, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
• Email:
  matt.thiese@hsc.utah.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Utah
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20110831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8d759156c9d781efafd05824c40148eaf86f2a3e880ae0a41ea8d685ea4f565256944e8551b9d50236b13ab58efc0ade62006133f356294e30984c09f9d06526
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222438/cdc_222438_DS1.pdf
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