Journal article
0182 Predictors of Workers’ Compensation Claim Duration among Workers Disabled Due to Low Back Pain
Abstract
Low back pain (LBP) is a common complaint among workers receiving Workers’ Compensation wage replacement benefits. We used the administrative data from the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to explore the association between baseline characteristics and commonly reimbursed therapies and time to claim closure among workers disabled due to LBP. Using the WSIB administrative database, we acquired a random sample of 6665 injured …
Authors
Busse J; Steenstra I; Ebrahim S; Heels-Ansdell D; Walter S; Guyatt G
Journal
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 71, No. Suppl 1,
Publisher
BMJ
Publication Date
June 2014
DOI
10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.70
ISSN
1351-0711