Electronic Health Records Role in Predicting Outcomes to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Study Protocol

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.