Disability case management: an impact assessment in an automotive manufacturing organization
| Autor: | Douglas H. Linz, Evelyn M. Mobley, Rakesh Shukla, Robert E. Breslin, Chunqin Deng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Biometry medicine.medical_treatment Cost-Benefit Analysis Pilot Projects Automotive manufacturing Sampling Studies Occupational medicine Break point Sickness Impact Profile medicine Humans Industry Disabled Persons Program Development Rehabilitation Impact assessment business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Case management United States Workforce Absenteeism Workers' Compensation Female business Automobiles Case Management Demography Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. 42(6) |
| ISSN: | 1076-2752 |
| Popis: | A multifaceted disability management program was instituted at an automotive manufacturing organization to control rising workers' compensation costs. A pilot program showed major cost savings over a 9-month period. When total and component disability leave rates were calculated as a percentage of the available workforce and tracked on a weekly basis over the subsequent 3 years, total disability leave rates fell by nearly 50%. This was largely attributable to an approximately 50% decrease in the extended (> 1-year) disability leave rate and a 75% decrease in the workers' compensation leave rate. A novel approach to biostatistical analysis showed a good fit of weekly disability leave rates to a Poisson random variable distribution with an identifiable break point at about 1 1/2 years after observation for extended disability leaves and at 2 years for workers' compensation leaves. This biostatistical approach may prove generalizable to tracking leave rates in other organizations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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