Open AccessDo Injured Workers Receive Opioid Prescriptions Outside the Workers’ Compensation System?
Author(s) -
Abay Asfaw,
Brian Quay,
ChiaChia Chang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-5948
pISSN - 1076-2752
DOI - 10.1097/jom.0000000000001961
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , workers' compensation , opioid , occupational safety and health , odds , injury prevention , poison control , emergency medicine , odds ratio , compensation (psychology) , family medicine , medical emergency , logistic regression , nursing , psychology , receptor , pathology , psychoanalysis
We explored the impact of workplace injury on receiving opioid prescriptions from employer-sponsored private group health insurances (GHI) and how long injured workers receive opioid prescriptions after injury.