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Alternative Title:
J Safety Res
Personal Author:
Bertke, S. J. ; Meyers, A. R. ; Wurzelbacher, S. J. ; Bell, J. ; Lampl, M. L. ; ... More +
Bertke, S. J. ; Meyers, A. R. ; Wurzelbacher, S. J. ; Bell, J. ; Lampl, M. L. ; Robins, D. Less -
Description:
Introduction

Tracking and trending rates of injuries and illnesses classified as musculoskeletal disorders caused by ergonomic risk factors such as overexertion and repetitive motion (MSDs) and slips, trips, or falls (STFs) in different industry sectors is of high interest to many researchers. Unfortunately, identifying the cause of injuries and illnesses in large datasets such as workers’ compensation systems often requires reading and coding the free form accident text narrative for potentially millions of records.

Method

To alleviate the need for manual coding, this paper describes and evaluates a computer auto-coding algorithm that demonstrated the ability to code millions of claims quickly and accurately by learning from a set of previously manually coded claims.

Conclusions

The auto-coding program was able to code claims as a musculoskeletal disorders, STF or other with approximately 90% accuracy.

Impact on industry

The program developed and discussed in this paper provides an accurate and efficient method for identifying the causation of workers’ compensation claims as a STF or MSD in a large database based on the unstructured text narrative and resulting injury diagnoses. The program coded thousands of claims in minutes. The method described in this paper can be used by researchers and practitioners to relieve the manual burden of reading and identifying the causation of claims as a STF or MSD. Furthermore, the method can be easily generalized to code/classify other unstructured text narratives.


Subject:
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Accident Narratives
Accidents, Occupational
Algorithms
Article
Bayes
Bayes Theorem
Clinical Coding
Data-mining
Data Mining
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Quality Control
Risk Factors
Sample Size
Text-mining
Text Classification
Workers' Compensation

Source:
J Safety Res. 43(0):327-332.
Pubmed ID:
23206504
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4550086
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
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