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| Sheilah Hogg-JohnsonSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Identification of work-related injuries in a State Trauma RegistryJeanne M Sears
Departments of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Occup Environ Med 54:356-62. 2012..Many state trauma registries contain work-related information but are underutilized for occupational injury research/surveillance. We assessed three methods of identifying work-related injuries in the Washington State Trauma Registry (WTR)...
Nurse practitioners as attending providers for workers with uncomplicated back injuries: using administrative data to evaluate quality and process of careJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
J Occup Environ Med 49:900-8. 2007....
Nurse practitioners as attending providers for injured workers: evaluating the effect of role expansion on disability and costsJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Med Care 45:1154-61. 2007..This legislation authorized NPs to independently perform most functions of an attending physician...
Expanding the role of nurse practitioners: effects on rural access to care for injured workersJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Rural Health 24:171-8. 2008..SHB 1691 authorized NPs to independently perform most functions of an attending physician...
Including injured workers without compensated time loss in Cox regression models: analyzing time loss using all available dataJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357660, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Occup Rehabil 18:225-32. 2008..We present a novel technique based on standard survival analysis methods to allow for the inclusion of all cases when appropriate...
Enhancing the policy impact of evaluation research: a case study of nurse practitioner role expansion in a state workers' compensation systemJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Nurs Outlook 57:99-106. 2009....
The use of administrative data as a substitute for individual screening scores in observational studies related to problematic alcohol or drug useJeanne M Sears
Center for Healthcare Improvement for Addictions, Mental Illness and Medically Vulnerable Populations CHAMMP, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 111:89-96. 2010..The findings further suggest that proxies for substance use disorders, such as those evaluated here, can enhance future observational studies intended to improve health care for this population...
Occupational injury surveillance using the Washington State Trauma RegistryJeanne M Sears
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:1243-50. 2011..The objective is to explore and document the Washington State Trauma Registry as a resource for occupational injury surveillance and research...
