Injury classification agreement in linked Bureau of Labor Statistics and Workers' Compensation data

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1100-1109

  Wuellner, Sara E ^a   Bonauto, David K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Injury classification; Injury coding; Occupational injury; Surveillance; Workers' compensation data

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CODING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

CLINICAL CODING; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; WASHINGTON; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 84908219094     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22289     Document Type: Article

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