Articles tagged under ‘Healthcare in work injuries’

In partnership with it pays to care, articles by Tanya Cambey and Dr Mary Wyatt

Articles 1 - 15 of 15

• The longer you doubt, the longer they're out

  A message to insurers and regulators about the unintended consequences of adversarial claims management.

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• The hidden challenge of health literacy and its impact on injured workers

  What we say matters as much as what we do. For injured workers with limited health literacy, our words may matter even more.

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• When 'abnormal' is normal — rethinking how we report spinal imaging

  Words matter. Context matters. How we report imaging findings can either contribute to harm or support recovery.

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• The treatment lottery — When postcode and pathways shape recovery

  Two workers. Same injury. Same employer. Same compensation scheme. Different recovery paths.

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• The waiting room — How administrative delay creates perpetual patients

  What happens when the queue becomes the intervention.

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• IMEs for return to work: are we answering the wrong questions?

  When biomedical assessment meets psychosocial reality

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• The assessment carousel — Part 2: Procedural justice and system impacts

  How the process of assessment — not just the number — shapes outcomes in workers' compensation.

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• The assessment carousel — Part 1: When proving replaces improving

  How repeated assessments delay recovery in workers' compensation

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• The hidden crisis — How inadequate opioid monitoring in compensable schemes fails our most vulnerable

  This article examines the governance and monitoring failures that enable opioid-related harm in Australian compensable schemes.

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• Pain medicines cause harm — Opioids in workers’ compensation

  Prolonged opioid therapy in compensable settings is consistently associated with poorer function, longer disability and higher risk — particularly at higher daily doses and longer durations.

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• Healthcare in Work Injuries - Article Series

  This series is published in partnership with It Pays to Care, articles by Tanya Cambey and Dr Mary Wyatt

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• When scans make things worse: the unintended harms of spinal imaging - Part 2: Language, cascades and compounding harm

  Part 1 examined the evidence linking unnecessary imaging to prolonged disability. This article explores how report language drives these outcomes and how imaging cascades intersect with medication pathways to compound harm.

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• When scans make things worse: the unintended harms of spinal imaging - Part 1 System use and outcomes

  This article is the first of two on spinal imaging. Here we focus on the evidence that routine scans often cause harm without improving recovery. The companion Part 2 article explores why this happens and how language, cascades and medications magnify the impact.

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• Appendix: Evidence of harm from back pain imaging

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• Series introduction — Healthcare in work injuries isn’t neutral

  This article launches a fortnightly series that will examine how healthcare delivery in workers' compensation can inadvertently harm the people it aims to help. Over the coming months, we'll explore the evidence in depth.