 Summary Report of the Incidence and Prevalence of Worker Injury and Subsequent Outcome in British Columbia: a Record Linkage StudyC. Hertzman, K. McGrail and R. Hirtle Centre for Health Services and Policy Research from University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Abstract: Starting in June, 1997, the Workers' Compensation Board of BC made available computerized records of all injured workers claims, from 1986 to 1996, to the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Using 'personal identifier' fields such as PHN, name, birth date, sec and postal code, we were able to link approximately 75% of 1.6 million Income Assistance records provided to us by the Ministry of Human Resources. Once the personal identifier field from the injured workers file were succesfully matched to an individual in our Linkage Co-ordinating File, the scrambled Personal Health Number was added to the record in the WCB identifier file. This process allowed us to merge the WCB files of specific individuals with other files in the BCLCDB in order to produce longitudinal records of health services utilization for individual injured workers. Keywords: HEALTH; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:brichs:99:7 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Centre for Health Services and Policy Research from University of British Columbia - Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. The University of British Columbia. Health Policy Research Unit. 429-2194 Health Sciences Mall. Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z3. |
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