The Added Value of Collecting Information on Pain Experience When Predicting Time on Benefits for Injured Workers with Back Pain

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In this publication we built on previous work. In our previous work we determined which information collected by WSIB were most important to identify those workers with work related low back pain that might be at risk to stay on benefits for a long time. In this study we added information from a study that collected data from injured workers. we determined that pain reports improved the identification of workers at risk. Asking injured workers about their low back pain (on a scale from 0-10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the worst pain you can imagine, how do you rate your pain?) can provide additional valuable information to identify those at risk for long duration on benefits.

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