Articles tagged under ‘Impact of compensation’

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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.

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• Webinar recording: The Workers' Voice Project — Re-imagining workers’ compensation from a lived experience perspective

  Professor Alex Collie, Director of the Healthy Working Lives Research Group at Monash University, presents research that aims to address the stress and complexity that many injured workers face during the claims process.

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• Webinar recording: Wellbeing following finalisation of a workers’ compensation claim — A systematic scoping review

  Hear from Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, James Weir on his research into the wellbeing outcomes following workers' compensation claims.

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• Workers’ compensation re-imagined from a lived experience perspective — Part 1

  What would a workers’ compensation scheme designed by people with lived experience of such claims look like? An innovative research study aims to find out.

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• What happens to workers when their long duration compensation claims stop?

  In a study, one in 4 workers with long-duration workers compensation claims moved onto Centrelink payments after workers’ compensation benefits stopped — or 1 in 2 if their payments stopped because of changes to the law that capped their payments at 5 years. What does this mean for workers and policy makers?

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• Mirror, mirror

  “Who’s the fairest?” matters to compensation recipients. Researchers find associations between reduced adversarialism, greater perceived fairness and better health.

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• Psychosocial pitfalls of "ordinary" injuries

  We eavesdrop on a conversation (ok, polite but passionate debate) between RTW professionals with differing views on the influence of psyschosocial issues on recovery from non-catastrophic injury.

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• Moral injury and RTW

  Notions of wrongdoing, blame and guilt can seem dangerous in the context of RTW. Are we missing something about the human experience of workplace injury?

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• Qualitative VS Quantitative research

  What is qualitative research? Can it help solve the puzzle of why workers’ compensation seems to be bad for your health?

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• Spinal fusion: All pain, no gain?

  Australians are turning to spinal fusions to control lower back pain despite a lack of evidence. Poor outcomes are particularly likely in the workers' comp system.

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• Disputes: at what cost?

  If an employee is suspected of 'gaming the system,' is it worth investigating the matter further and entering into a dispute? We take a look at the costs involved.

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• Dispute Resolutions: How does your jurisdiction stack up?

  The CPM report provides information on disputation rates and dispute resolution rates across Australia and New Zealand schemes. The 2015 report is the 17th report analysing year on year workers compensation data.

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• Disputes: The harm they can cause

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• Claims Process: the stress of making a claim

  When a worker is injured, there might be fears for their job stability, financial burdens, or concern that they will never be able to regain their previous lifestyle.

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• Dr Melita Giummarra: Injury, Compensation and Perceptions of Injustice

  Monash University in association with the Transport Accident Commission conducted a study into perceptions of injustice, chronic pain and pain-related disability.

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• Compensation: does it do more harm than good?

  Professor Ian Cameron from the University of Sydney spoke at the 2016 ISCRR Forum on ways that the compensation claims procedures can be changed as well as other possible interventions.

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• Video: It's time to say good-bye to brain drain

  Rob Aurbach talks about the neuroplasticity, and the impact of negative messages on pain and return to work.

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• Consider the alternative: ADR in the workers' compensation context

  An introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes and their application in the Australian workers' compensation system

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• Garnering consensus on the importance of work to health

  Occupational Physicians have brought together a broad group to join forces on changing beliefs and attitudes to being in work

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• Australian Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work

  Occupational Physicians garner stakeholder support to influence policy initiatives and stakeholder management of work and health

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• Decision-making justice: Part two

  Another must read for claims / case managers: how you cannot afford to get it wrong, and how you can get it right.

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• Backing away from compensation

  A prominent South Australian back surgeon has called for workers' comp for back pain to be scrapped. Why not fix treatment?

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• Price for patients of no-cost compensation

  Should workers' comp recipients share treatment costs with their employers?

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• Preventing further harm to the harmed

  Etymology - the archaeology of words - sometimes uncovers a contemporary resonance in ancient digs.

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• Saying no to compensation

  Lara (not her real name) recovers from brain trauma but eventually quits her job and abandons her claim. Why?

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• System satisfaction?

  Satisfaction with the claims process affects the long term financial, social and health outcomes of compensation recipients. How do we increase it?

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• Compensation: More painful than surgery?

  There is a correlation between compensation and poorer surgical outcomes. What can be done?

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• Litigation in workers' compensation disputes: why we should avoid it

  In the first of our two-part series on the risks and limitations of litigation in workers' compensation disputes, we look at why it should be avoided, and reasons why employees turn to the lawyers.

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• The 'what' and 'how' of your workers' comp dispute: Part 2 - the 'how'

  In the second part of a two-part series on preparing for a workers' compensation dispute we look at 'how' you can best put your prepartion into practice

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• Common law: Jackpot or jinx?

  This fact sheet for workers considering a common law claim outlines pros, cons and survival tips.

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• Highway to hell?

  What's it like to enter the workers' comp system as an ill or injured worker?

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• What's more painful than chronic pain? Chronic pain in 'The System'

  Workers' comp and RTW systems can exacerbate chronic pain, but as Coralie Wales from Chronic Pain Australia explains, that's not the end of the story...

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• Compensation's negative side effects

  We don't talk enough about the poor outcomes associated with workers' compensation.

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• When compensation impedes recovery

  Studies show that workers are less likely to recover from illness or injury if they enter the compensation system.

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• Australian workers' comp overview: Can money buy RTW?

  We use the latest Comparative Performance Monitoring Report to take a look at how money is spent within Australia's workers' compensation system: and suggest that penny pinching is sometimes good for your health!

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• Protecting those who protect us — What we’re learning about police suicide

  An Australian study of police suicide highlights the critical factors that are associated with heightened suicide risk and points to opportunities to strengthen prevention and support.

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• Turning challenges into opportunities — promoting clinician well-being in compensable injury schemes

  Treating people with an injury compensation claim has its challenges. But it can also be a source of fulfilment for healthcare providers in this field.

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• Safer, healthier, wealthier — the economic value of reducing work-related injuries and illnesses

  What’s the economic impact of work-related illness or injury? Safe Work Australia engaged Deloitte Access Economics find out. A ground-breaking economic modelling approach shows that our economy could be a lot better off with better work health and safety.

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• Victorian Injured Worker Outcomes Study Part 3 — what happens to injured workers at the end of their workers’ comp claim?

  Workers with long term claims face many challenges when their claims end. Difficulty finding work and being ineligible for Centrelink benefits and other government support programs are just some of them.

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• The Victorian Injured Worker Outcomes Study: Part 1 — the impact of IMEs on workers’ recovery

  A Victorian study into the factors that influence longer term workers’ compensation claims found that some ‘events’ in workers’ compensation systems can lead to lengthy claims. One of those key events are independent medical examinations.

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• A look at hospital admissions after long-duration workers’ compensation claims

  A study finds that people with long duration workers’ compensation claims were more likely than others to need hospital treatment in the year before, and the year after, their payments stopped.

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• Work injury and deaths of despair

  Research from the US confirms a connection between work absences of more than a week and deaths from drug overdose and suicide.

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• Mirror, mirror

  “Who’s the fairest?” matters to compensation recipients. Researchers find associations between reduced adversarialism, greater perceived fairness and better health.

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• Rethinking injury and unfairness

  Why do some people focus on the injustice of their injury while others move on with equanimity? Researchers have uncovered strong relationships between perceptions of injustice, feeling that someone else is to blame and experiencing hardship.

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• How do social functioning, social relationships and compensation influence RTW?

  Understanding the factors that influence return to work assists in effective rehabilitation.