2023
DOI: 10.1177/20552076231176695
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Development and initial application of a harmonised multi-jurisdiction work injury compensation database

Abstract: Objectives Workers’ compensation schemes provide funding for wage replacement and healthcare for injured and ill workers. In Australia, workers’ compensation schemes operate independently in different jurisdictions, making comparisons of health service use challenging. We sought to develop and deploy a new database of health service and income support data, harmonising data from multiple Australian workers’ compensation jurisdictions. Methods We worked with workers’ compensation authorities from six Australian… Show more

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“…Australian workers' compensation schemes all provide funding for health services, including medicines, that are reasonable and necessary for worker recovery 36 . In this retrospective cohort study (see STROBE checklist, http://links.lww.com/JOM/B606), we utilized administrative data from 2 Australian workers' compensation jurisdictions: the states of Victoria and South Australia 37 . These jurisdictions were selected as the regulators in each collected detailed information about the medicines that schemes fund.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Australian workers' compensation schemes all provide funding for health services, including medicines, that are reasonable and necessary for worker recovery 36 . In this retrospective cohort study (see STROBE checklist, http://links.lww.com/JOM/B606), we utilized administrative data from 2 Australian workers' compensation jurisdictions: the states of Victoria and South Australia 37 . These jurisdictions were selected as the regulators in each collected detailed information about the medicines that schemes fund.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Claims, services, and medicines data used in this study were harmonized, cleaned, and have been used in several previous studies 28,39–41 . We describe the data preparation in brief in the following, with more detailed information available elsewhere 37 . Claims data included one record per claim with information about the claim such as worker age, injury type, and occupation.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study utilizes the Multi-Jurisdiction Workers' Compensation Database [25]. The database includes claims and payments data from several Australian workers' compensation jurisdictions for musculoskeletal conditions including low back pain.…”
Section: Data Sourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Payment data include the type, date, and cost of all health care services for each claim. Data from all jurisdictions have previously been harmonized in a systematic and rigorous process to allow inter-jurisdictional analyses and comparisons in a process documented elsewhere [25].…”
Section: Data Sourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%