Accuracy of Injury Coding in a Canadian Workers' Compensation System

The silent payer speaks: workers' compensation boards and Canadian physicians.

Defining Documentation Requirements for Coding Quality Care in Workers' Compensation.

very year in the United States, more E than one million workplace injuries or illnesses occur that are severe enough to result in days lost from work. Injured workers require medical care and careful attention to factors that will help them recover their ability to work, but American medical practice focuses on disease diagnosis and treatment and pays little attention to functional ability. In ...

Workers' compensation and injury duration: evidence from a natural experiment.

This paper examines the effect of workers' compensation on time out of work. It introduces a "natural experiment8 approach of comparing individuals injured before and after increases in the maximum weekly benefit amount. The increases examined in Kentucky and Michigan raised the benefit amount for high-earnings individuals by approximately 50 percent, while low-earnings individuals, who were ...

A Global Vaccine Injury Compensation System.

Vaccines are extremely safe and harm is rare. Worldwide,morethan30000vaccinedosesaredeliveredper secondthrough routine immunizationprograms,which, in turn,preventanestimated2million to3milliondeaths annually.1Theoccurrenceofseriousadverseevents, such as those that result in death, threaten life, require inpatienthospitalization,or result in significantdisability, are rare (eg, <1 adverseeventoc...

synthesis of platinum nanostructures in two phase system

چکیده پلاتین، فلزی نجیب، پایدار و گران قیمت با خاصیت کاتالیزوری زیاد است که کاربرد های صنعتی فراوانی دارد. کمپلکس های پلاتین(ii) به عنوان دارو های ضد سرطان شناخته شدند و در شیمی درمانی بیماران سرطانی کاربرد دارند. خاصیت کاتالیزوری و عملکرد گزینشی پلاتین مستقیماً به اندازه و- شکل ماده ی پلاتینی بستگی دارد. بعضی از نانو ذرات فلزی در سطح مشترک مایع- مایع سنتز شده اند، اما نانو ساختار های پلاتین ب...