Prevalence of lost-time claims for mild traumatic brain injury in the working population: Improving estimates using workers compensation databases

Brain Injury

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-59

  Kristman, Vicki L ^a,b,c   Côté, Pierre ^a,b,c   Van Eerd, Dwayne ^c   Vidmar, Marjan ^c   Rezai, Mana ^b,c   Hogg Johnson, Sheilah ^b,c,d   Wennberg, Richard A ^b   Cassidy, J David ^a,b,d  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative database; Bias; Diagnosis; Measurement; Mild traumatic brain injury; Occupational injury; Prevalence; Stratified estimates; Whiplash; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CANADA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

EID: 38049115340     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050701849991     Document Type: Article

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