@article{ref1,
title="Case identification of work-related traumatic brain injury using the occupational injury and illness classification system",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2013",
author="Sears, Jeanne M. and Graves, Janessa M. and Blanar, Laura and Bowman, Stephen M.",
volume="55",
number="5",
pages="507-513",
abstract="OBJECTIVES:: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common, costly, and disabling occupational injuries. Objectives included determining whether work-related TBI could be reliably identified using the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) and describing challenges in developing an OIICS-based TBI case definition. METHODS:: Washington State trauma registry reports and workers' compensation claims were linked (1998 to 2008). Trauma registry diagnoses were used as the gold standard for six OIICS-based TBI case definitions. RESULTS:: The OIICS-based case definitions were highly specific but had low sensitivity, capturing less than a third of fatal and nonfatal TBI. CONCLUSION:: The use of OIICS versus International Classification of Diseases-Ninth Revision-Clinical Modification codes underestimated TBI and changed the attributable cause distribution, with potential implications for prevention efforts. Surveillance methods that can more fully and accurately capture the impact of work-related TBI across the United States are needed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0b013e31827ee018",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e31827ee018"
}