Workers' Compensation

"Workers' Compensation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connected injuries or disease.

Descriptor ID	D014942
MeSH Number(s)	N03.219.521.346.866 N03.219.521.576.300.900
Concept/Terms	Workers' Compensation Workers' Compensation Compensation, Workers' Compensations, Workers' Workers' Compensations Workman's Compensation Compensation, Workman's Compensations, Workman's Workman Compensation Workman's Compensations Workmans Compensation Workmen's Compensation Compensation, Workmen's Compensations, Workmen's Workmen Compensation Workmen's Compensations Workmens Compensation Worker's Compensation Compensation, Worker's Compensations, Worker's Worker Compensation Worker's Compensations Workers Compensation

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Workers' Compensation".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Economics [N03.219]
Financing, Organized [N03.219.521]
Financing, Government [N03.219.521.346]
Workers' Compensation [N03.219.521.346.866]
Insurance [N03.219.521.576]
Insurance, Disability [N03.219.521.576.300]
Workers' Compensation [N03.219.521.576.300.900]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Workers' Compensation".

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Bar chart showing 13 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2015 and 2016 and 2020 and 2023

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1998	1	0	1
2006	0	1	1
2013	1	0	1
2015	1	1	2
2016	1	1	2
2018	0	1	1
2020	1	1	2
2022	1	0	1
2023	1	1	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Workers' Compensation" by people in Profiles.

Lee D, Destine H, Perez A, Detweiler MC, Corsi DR, Lencer AJ, Gibbs BS, Freedman KB, Tjoumakaris FP. Workman's compensation as exclusion criteria in rotator cuff repair literature - are we inadvertently excluding race? Phys Sportsmed. 2024 08; 52(4):355-359.

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Luthringer TA, Kane LT, Vaughn AK, Reddy YC, Lazarus MD, Namdari S. Work-related outcomes of revision rotator cuff repair for patients receiving workers' compensation. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2023 Jun; 32(6S):S92-S98.

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Karamian BA, Mangan J, Siegel N, Lambrechts MJ, Sirch F, Trivedi A, Toci G, D'Antonio ND, Canseco JA, Kaye D, Woods B, Radcliff K, Kurd M, Rihn J, Hilibrand A, Kepler CK, Vaccaro AR, Schroeder G. Workers' Compensation Status and Outcomes Following Lumbar Surgery. World Neurosurg. 2022 05; 161:e730-e739.

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Galetta M, Radcliff KE, Hilibrand AS, Vaccaro AR, Yeon HB. Worker's Compensation Terminology. Clin Spine Surg. 2020 08; 33(7):280-283.

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Lu Y, Agarwalla A, Patel BH, Nolte MT, Cancienne J, Verma N, Cole BJ, Forsythe B. Influence of workers' compensation status on postoperative outcomes in patients following biceps tenodesis: a matched-pair cohort analysis. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2020 Dec; 29(12):2530-2537.

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Hozack BA, Abboudi J, Gallant G, Jones CM, Kirkpatrick W, Liss FE, Rivlin M, Takei TR, Wang ML, Silverman M, Foltz C, Ilyas AM. Prospective Evaluation of Opioid Consumption Following Cubital Tunnel Decompression Surgery. Hand (N Y). 2019 Jan; 14(1):42-47.

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Derman PB, Lampe LP, Hughes AP, Pan TJ, Kueper J, Girardi FP, Albert TJ, Lyman S. Demographic, Clinical, and Operative Factors Affecting Long-Term Revision Rates After Cervical Spine Arthrodesis. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2016 Sep 21; 98(18):1533-40.

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Kho JY, Gaspar MP, Kane PM, Jacoby SM, Shin EK. Prognostic Variables for Patient Return-to-Work Interval Following Carpal Tunnel Release in a Workers' Compensation Population. Hand (N Y). 2017 05; 12(3):246-251.

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Koerner JD, Glaser J, Radcliff K. Which Variables Are Associated With Patient-reported Outcomes After Discectomy? Review of SPORT Disc Herniation Studies. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2015 Jun; 473(6):2000-6.

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Salvo JP, Hammoud S, Flato R, Sgromolo N, Mendelsohn ES. Outcomes after hip arthroscopy in patients with workers' compensation claims. Orthopedics. 2015 Feb; 38(2):e94-8.

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