Associations with legal representation in a compensation setting 12 months after injury

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 918-925

  Casey, Petrina P ^a   Feyer, Anne Marie ^b   Cameron, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Institute of Safety   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compensation; Health Outcome; Insurance; Lawyer Legal representation; Prospective design; Recovery; WAD; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL RATING INDEX; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAIN CATASTROPHISING SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS; WHIPLASH INJURY; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; AUSTRALIA; CATASTROPHIZING; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CATASTROPHIZATION; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 84921328315     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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