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Characteristics of agricultural and occupational injuries by workers’ compensation and other payer sources
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August 22 2019
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Source: Am J Ind Med. 62(11):969-977
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Alternative Title:Am J Ind Med
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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.
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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.
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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%).
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Workers’ compensation claims data will not include the majority of work-related agricultural injuries.
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Pubmed ID:31436863
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC6944284
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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
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