Medical Cost of Workers’ Compensation Claims Related to Patient Handling and Mobility Tasks Within Skilled Nursing Facilities, Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities: An Exploratory Analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Pieretti LF ; Siegfried KV ; Sylvester RA
• Description:
  Objective: Evaluate the medical costs related to patient handling & mobility (PH&M) claims. Methods: Closed medical only and indemnity workers' compensation claims were utilized for this exploratory study. In addition to the PH&M tasks, the claimants' gender, age, tenure, and the claim lag time were also analyzed. Results: Generalized linear models indicated that variables related to tasks, claims' number of open days and age of the claimants had meaningful effects on the adjusted medical costs for medical only claims. For indemnity claims, the number of open days of claims, age and tenure had meaningful effects. Gender had meaningful effects only for indemnity claims when classifying the claims by patient handling tasks versus non-patient handling tasks. Conclusions: Results showed that factors, other than the type of injury; meaningfully influenced the adjusted medical costs of indemnity claims. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Long Term Care Cost Analyses Costs Health Care Workers Injuries Medical Costs MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Musculoskeletal Injuries Patient Handling Workers' Compensation Workers Compensation

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maine ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062540
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2020 Dec; 62(12):e738-e747
• Contact Point Address:
  Luis F. Pieretti, PhD, The MEMIC Group, 261 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101
• Email:
  lpieretti@memic.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:41fa12b63e9b517794b9ff44d45a5faf3d93a322035bff12364d7e4bb5b0dd8ed18f88f84e7ef597e8b4828cf0354aa223786a46319292cd2a257b7196e3d7a2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225769/cdc_225769_DS1.pdf
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