Download or read book Development and Validation of a Predictive Model of Return to work Outcomes of Injured Employees in Minnesota written by Adrian Bentley Hankins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minnesota's workers' compensation system, injured employees at risk for sustaining permanent disability may be eligible for receipt of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services if they are determined to be capable of benefitting from such services. VR services can be a valuable resource to injured employees who need assistance minimizing their work disability and maximizing their residual wage-earning capacity. However, for VR services to be effective at a system level, it is necessary to precisely and accurately identify an injured employee's rehabilitation potential. Failure to do so is likely to result in the misallocation of a scarce and costly resource. Given recent trends in Minnesota's workers compensation system (e.g., higher VR service costs and lower RTW rates among injured employees with indemnity claims), this study was conducted with the purpose of developing and validating an objective, evidence-based method of predicting the RTW status as of claim closure of injured Minnesota employees who sustained permanent impairment and received VR services. To accomplish this purpose, a closed-claim, retrospective design was implemented. Data for this cross-sectional study was obtained from the Minnesota administrative claims database. There were 15,372 claims that met all eligibility criteria. With guidance from the biopsychosocial disablement models developed by Nagi and the World Health Organization, 15 discrete predictor variables that represented medical, individual, and workplace factors were selected for study inclusion. Descriptive and predictive analyses were used to assess the relationship between this study's RTW outcome and its set of RTW predictors. Using logistic regression, an optimal RTW model was first developed and then internally validated with a split-dataset approach. The optimal RTW model included four main effects (attorney involvement; severity of permanent impairment; age; job tenure) and three first-order interaction effects (pre-injury average weekly wage X pre-injury industry; attorney involvement X severity of permanent impairment; attorney involvement X job tenure). Though not retained in the optimal RTW model, part of body affected and education also had notable bivariate relationships with the outcome. The optimal RTW model's performance regarding goodness-of-fit and clinical usefulness suggests it may be of value to those assessing rehabilitation potential within Minnesota's workers compensation system.
Download or read book Handbook of Return to Work written by Izabela Z. Schultz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing a palette of evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer, from TBI to PTSD. The resulting collection bridges the gap between research evidence and practice and gives readers necessary information from a range of critical perspectives. Among the featured topics: Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses. Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioral and cultural change. Program evaluation in return to work: an integrative framework. Working with stakeholders in return to work processes. Return to work after major limb loss. Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors. Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The Handbook of Return to Work is an invaluable, unique and comprehensive resource for health, rehabilitation, clinical, counselling and industrial psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, occupational and physical therapists, family and primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as occupational medicine specialists, case and disability managers and human resource professionals. Academics and researchers across these fields will also find expert guidance and direction in these pages. It is an essential reading for all return to work and stay at work stakeholders.
Download or read book Return to Work Outcomes for Injured Workers written by Sharon E. Fox and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting Return to Work After Workplace Injury written by Richard Hilton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and public health benefits of improving return to work outcomes after workplace injury remain major goals for employers, injured workers and compensation administrators. A step to improving return to work outcomes is identifying which workers have the greatest risk of not being successful. While there has been considerable study in this area there has not been a bringing together of current knowledge, nor is there consensus regarding predictors of return to work.
Download or read book Return to Work written by Thomas J. Beedem and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predicting Return to work Outcomes for the Injured Worker written by Horace Ting and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prediction Model for Return to Work of Injured Workers in Hong Kong written by Yanwen Xu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rehabilitation in the Minnesota Workers Compensation System written by Minnesota. Department of Labor and Industry. Division of Research and Education and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outcome of a Return to Work Programme for Injured Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders written by Mohd suleiman Murad and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies contained in this thesis investigate the impact of a return to work (RTW) programme that has been conducted by Malaysian Social Security Organisation (SOCSO). Important findings on underlying issues of occupational performance and participation, health status, and emotional wellbeing of injured workers is presented using two frameworks, the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) and International Classification of Functioning and Disabilities (ICF), and also the different phases of RTW programme (off-work, re-entry, maintenance and advancement phases). To examine the issues, these four phases were used to explore injured workers abilities and capacities. The injured workers also were interviewed about their experiences and expectations regarding the supports that they had obtained from the stakeholders whilst involved with SOCSO's RTW programme. The thesis is organised into the following chapters. The background of the research and appraisal of the underpinning theoretical frameworks are explained in Chapter 1. A literature review of studies regarding musculoskeletal disorders and RTW outcomes, types of interventions and instruments that have been used to study RTW are critiqued in Chapter 2. Five publications (two published and three under consideration) comprise Chapters 3 to 7. These are individual studies addressing five key research questions that arose from literature review, theoretical model and the process of RTW. A variety of methodologies have been employed to answer the research questions, including test and re-test reliability, validity analysis, cross-sectional surveys, parametric and non-parametric tests, correlation test and qualitative study (thematic analysis). In the first study (chapter 3), we found that Malaysian language Occupation Self Assessment version 2.2 (OSAv2.2) was reliable and valid to be used to assess biospsychological factors in the Malaysian RTW programme. The Malaysian OSAv2.2 showed high overall internal consistency, with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.91. In addition, test-retest reliability (Intra-class correlation (ICC)) for all 21 items ranged from 0.41 to 0.84. In terms of convergent validity, the physical functioning subscale of the Health Surveillance Survey (SF-36v2) had a moderate and significant relationship to the OSAv2.2 competence scale (rho= 0.552, p=0.001). In the second study (chapter 4), we found that occupational competence (mean=53.09, SD=10.38) in our sample (n=35) was found to be significantly lower than the reference population (mean=57.19, SD= 7.47, p=0.025) but there were no differences in our results based on gender, job status, or whether the person was still receiving medical treatment. Significant associations were found with most activity limitations measured by the SF-36v2, with the strongest of these occurring with the item "bending, kneeling or stooping" (rho=0.64) and "carrying groceries" (rho=0.53) (p
Download or read book Minnesota s Workers Compensation COVID 19 Claims written by Minnesota. Department of Labor and Industry and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Predictive and Process Models of Return to Work Following an Episode of Low Back Pain written by Wendy Wrapson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain E Book written by Hubert van Griensven and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated new edition of Pain: a textbook for health professionals (previous subtitle a textbook for therapists) has undergone a major rewrite in order to reflect the rapid developments in the field of pain management. It highlights an effective and evidence-based method, providing the theoretical basis to help with the assessment and management of persistent pain, while also discussing in depth a range of specific approaches. Pain: a textbook for health professionals is written emphatically from a biopsychosocial perspective. In order to set the scene, the introductory section includes chapters on the patient's voice and social determinants of pain. This ensures that the deeply personal and social aspects of pain are not lost among the more technical and biological commentary. These aspects provide an overall context, and are revisited in chapters on participation of life roles, work rehabilitation and psychology. The basic science section includes key chapters on the psychology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of pain. This provides a basis for subsequent chapters on specific approaches such as pharmacology, physical therapy and complementary medicine. Pain in specific patient groups, including children, the elderly and those with cancer, are dealt with in separate chapters, as are pain problems such as complex regional pain syndrome and chronic spinal pain. Although the emphasis of the book is on long term pain, acute pain is discussed as a possible precursor and determinant of chronicity. - Patient-centred approach to care – advocates listening to the patient's voice - Covers social determinants of pain - Guides the reader from pain psychology to the practical application of psychological interventions - Learning aids – chapter objectives, reflective exercises, case examples, and revision questions - Emphasizes an evidence-based perspective - Written by an international team of experts - topics such as pain in children and the elderly, pain education for professionals, disability and medico-legal aspects - expanded focus on complex regional pain syndrome, acupuncture and psychology - improved layout for a better learning and studying experience
Download or read book The Effects of Flexibility Program Implementation on Work related Injuries at the Minnesota Department of Transportation District 3 written by Lisa A. Dumont and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper details the effects of flexibility program design, training, and implementation on work-related injuries at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, District 3. The flexibility program targeted a reduction in the number and severity of work-related injuries and a reduction in workers' compensation claims and costs. This research paper addresses whether those objectives were met.
Download or read book Evaluating Ohio s Injured Workers for Vocational Rehabilitation Utilizing the Menninger Return to Work Scale written by John Harry Tooson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Predicting the return to work for individuals who have become disabled has been an area under investigation for vocational rehabilitation for several years. For the workers' compensation programs, the infusion of vocational rehabilitation programs add a different and significant problem for industrially injured workers. The vocational rehabilitation programs under these agencies were created to work with a specialized group of individuals who have a greater opportunity to return to work because of their unique work experience. Workers' compensation industrial vocational rehabilitation face the same issues as does the state-federal vocational rehabilitation system, and that is how to determine allocation of funding for appropriate vocational rehabilitation services to increase successful outcomes. In conjunction with the issue of allocation is the predictability of a successful outcome. The Menninger Return to Work Scale (MRTWS) was created from a sample of long-term disability clients. Utilizing specific variables, a determination as to the likelihood of an individual returning to work or not returning to work, can be developed. In this study, an evaluation of the scale2s practical application to the Ohio Workers2 Compensation system was examined. The variables of age, disability, marital status, area of residence, gender, type of employer, length of time in rehabilitation program, attorney representation, wage replacement, were studied to determine their impact on the return to work. The Chi-square test and the t-Test were used to determine if differences exist between the return to work group and the non-return to work group. The return to work group and the non-return to work group were found to be not significantly different for each variable in the study. The scale created for Ohio Bureau of Worker2s Compensation clients will provide some justification for the decisions made with regard to entering a client into a vocational rehabilitation program and in determining the level of support that will be necessary to bring the case to a positive resolution. Other uses for the scale are explored and recommendations are made for other possible studies to enhance the use of the Menninger Return to Work Scale.
Download or read book Early return to work Programs written by Lorrie L. Riat and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Download or read book Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
