Comparison of workers' compensation costs for two cohorts of injured workers before and after the introduction of managed care

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Workers' Compensation 100%
• Managed Care Programs 85%
• Occupational Groups 53%
• Health Expenditures 50%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 46%
• Safety 43%
• Preferred Provider Organizations 42%
• Compensation and Redress 33%
• Ergonomics 29%
• Case Management 26%
• Workplace 23%
• Quality of Health Care 21%
• Population 9%

Social Sciences

• managed care 84%
• worker 46%
• expenditures 43%
• costs 41%
• Workplace hazards 40%
• case management 27%
• ergonomics 27%
• Quality of care 26%
• engineering 14%
• organization 14%