What Industrial Categories Are Workers at Excess Risk of Filing a COVID-19 Workers' Compensation Claim? A Study Conducted in 11 Midwestern US States
dc.contributor.author | Bernacki, Edward J | |
dc.contributor.author | Hunt, Dan L | |
dc.contributor.author | Yuspeh, Larry | |
dc.contributor.author | Lavin, Robert A | |
dc.contributor.author | Kalia, Nimisha | |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, Nina | |
dc.contributor.author | Tsourmas, Nicholas F | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Leila | |
dc.contributor.author | Tao, Xuguang Grant | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-28T15:27:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-05-28T15:27:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10713/15840 | |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE: Determine the industries with the highest proportion of accepted COVID-19 related workers' compensation (WC) claims. METHODS: Study included 21,336 WC claims (1898 COVID-19 and 19,438 other claims) that were filed between January 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020 from 11 states in the Midwest United States. RESULT: The overwhelming proportion of all COVID-19 related WC claims submitted and accepted were from healthcare workers (83.77%). Healthcare was the only industrial classification that was at significantly higher COVID-19 WC claim submission risk (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; 95% confidence intervals [CI]: 2.77 to 5.79) controlling for type of employment, sex, age, and presumption of COVID-19 work-relatedness. Within healthcare employment, WC claims submitted by workers in medical laboratories had the highest risk (crude rate ratio of 8.78). CONCLUSION: Healthcare employment is associated with an increased risk of developing COVID-19 infections and submitting a workers' compensation claim. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126 | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wolters Kluwer Health | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2021 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. | en_US |
dc.subject | industry type | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Worker's compensation claims | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | COVID-19 | en_US |
dc.title | What Industrial Categories Are Workers at Excess Risk of Filing a COVID-19 Workers' Compensation Claim? A Study Conducted in 11 Midwestern US States | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002126 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 33395171 | |
dc.source.volume | 63 | |
dc.source.issue | 5 | |
dc.source.beginpage | 374 | |
dc.source.endpage | 380 | |
dc.source.country | United States |