Repeat workers' compensation claims: Risk factors, costs and work disability

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ruseckaite, Rasa ^a   Collie, Alex ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VICTORIA; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959332773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-492     Document Type: Article

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