Response to Letter to the Editor: Checklist-Based Debiasing in Workers' Compensation: Necessitates a System-Level
1Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School-The University of Texas at Austin, Health Discovery Building Z-stop 0800, 1701 Trinity St. Austin, TX 78712, 512-495-3021.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|October 24, 2025
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