Researchers at University of British Columbia Report New Data on CDC and FDA (Did Implementation of No-fault Auto-insurance In British Columbia, Canada, Impact Return To Work Following Road Trauma? Protocol for a Before-after Survival …): CDC and FDA

2023 NOV 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Investigators publish new report on CDC and FDA. According to news reporting out of Vancouver, Canada, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Road trauma (RT) is a major public health problem that often results in prolonged absenteeism from work. Limited evidence suggests that recovery after RT is associated with automobile insurance compensation schemes.”

Financial support for this research came from Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of British Columbia, “In May 2021, British Columbia, Canada switched from fault-based to no-fault auto-insurance coverage. This manuscript presents the protocol for a planned evaluation of that natural experiment: We will evaluate the impact of changing automobile insurance schemes on return to work following RT. Methods and analysis The evaluation will use a beforeafter design to analyse auto-insurance claims (1 April 2019 to 30 April 2024) in order to compare recovery of claimants with non-catastrophic injuries who filed claims under the no-fault insurance scheme to that of those who filed claims under the previous system. Claimants will be followed from date of injury until they return to work or have been followed for 6 months (right-censored). We will perform sensitivity analyses to examine the robustness of our findings. First, we will exclude injuries that occurred during the COVID-19 provincial State of Emergency. Second, we will use propensity score methods rather than conventional covariate adjustment to address potential imbalance between characteristics of claimants pre-change and post-change. Finally, as the implementation effect may have a heterogeneous association with time off work, we will use quantile regression with right-censoring at 6 months to model differences in return to work at the 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Ethics and dissemination The study uses de-identified data and is approved by the University of British Columbia Clinical Research Ethics Board (H20-03644). This research is funded by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC). Findings will be published in the peer-reviewed literature and summarised in a report prepared for ICBC.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We anticipate that our findings will inform policy decisions in other jurisdictions considering switching to no-fault auto-insurance schemes.”

For more information on this research see: Did Implementation of No-fault Auto-insurance In British Columbia, Canada, Impact Return To Work Following Road Trauma? Protocol for a Before-after Survival Analysis. BMJ Open, 2023;13(9). BMJ Open can be contacted at: Bmj Publishing Group, British Med Assoc House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, England. (BMJ Publishing Group - http://group.bmj.com/; BMJ Open - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jeffrey R. Brubacher, University of British Columbia, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Vancouver, Bc, Canada. Additional authors for this research include Herbert Chan, Shannon Erdelyi, Alex Jiang, Christopher McLeod and Mieke Koehoorn.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075858. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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