Electronic Health Records Role in Predicting Outcomes to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Study Protocol
Melinda Wassell1, Andrew Vitiello1, Henry Pollard1,2
1Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|January 25, 2024
Abstract:
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are increasing in cost and time lost from work. Electronic health records have the potential to provide rich data to help inform and predict outcomes to WMSDs. The objective is to compare an EHR dataset from an occupational health service to comparative data, to help determine if the EHR dataset can be used in future studies to predict outcomes to care.
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