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Year |
2002 |
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Question Number |
69. |
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Category |
Shoulder and Elbow |
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This question is pulled directly from a paper by Matsen. But fortunately we should all have enough experience by now to know, innately, the workers’ compensation patients
as a whole do worse then non-workers’ compensation patients is just about anything you can test. The results of Matsen’s paper showed that patients whose shoulder ailment is covered by workers’ compensation have significantly lower self-assessed shoulder function and health status than do those patients whose shoulder conditions are not related to on-the-job injuries. This paper also went on to prove that these differences between WC and non WC also bore out when controlled for age, sex, or diagnosis.
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