Use of Attorneys and Appeal Filing in the Washington State Workers' Compensation Program: Does Patient Satisfaction Matter?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 331-339

  Wickizer, Thomas M ^a   Franklin, Gary ^a,c   Turner, Judith ^b   Fulton Kehoe, Deborah ^a   Mootz, Robert ^c   Smith Weller, Terri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL CARE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LAWYERS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WASHINGTON; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 1842638636     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000121130.79868.e6     Document Type: Article

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