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Alternative Title:
Am J Ind Med
Personal Author:
Missikpode, Celestin ; Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Wright, Brad ; Ramirez, Marizen
Missikpode, Celestin ; Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Wright, Brad ; Ramirez, Marizen Less -
Description:
Background:

Workers’ compensation claims data are routinely used to identify and describe work-related injury for public health surveillance and research, yet the proportion of work-related injuries covered by workers’ compensation, especially in the agricultural industry, is unknown.

Methods:

Using data from the Iowa Trauma Registry, we determined the sensitivity and specificity of the use of workers’ compensation as a payer source to ascertain work-related injuries requiring acute care comparing agriculture with other rural industries.

Results:

The sensitivity of workers’ compensation as a payer source to identify work-related agricultural injuries was 18.5%, suggesting that the large majority of occupational agricultural injuries would not be accurately identified through workers’ compensation records. For rural nonagricultural, rural occupational injuries, the sensitivity was higher (64.2%). Work-related agricultural injuries were most frequently covered by private insurance (39.6%) and public insurance (21.4%), while rural nonagricultural injuries were most frequently covered by workers’ compensation (65.2%).

Conclusions:

Workers’ compensation claims data will not include the majority of work-related agricultural injuries.


Subject:
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Agricultural Industry
And Specificity
Article
Sensitivity
Work-related Injuries
Workers’ Compensation

Source:
Am J Ind Med. 62(11):969-977
Pubmed ID:
31436863
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC6944284
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
R49CE002108/ACL/ACL HHS/United States ; Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health U50 OH/CDC/National Institute for Occupational Health/ ; University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Cent/CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/ ; U50 OH007548/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; U54 OH007548/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
R49CE002108/ACL/ACL HHS/United States ; Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health U50 OH/CDC/National Institute for Occupational Health/ ; University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Cent/CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/ ; U50 OH007548/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; U54 OH007548/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States Less -
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CDC Public Access
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