Diagnosis and prognosis in compensation claims.
Year: 1982
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Psychiatric syndromes following compensable injury are not unusual in surgical practice. All such patients show exaggeration of their symptoms; compensation neurosis and malingering in particular are difficult to separate clinically. The signs and symptoms are reviewed. The prognosis has been assessed in 52 cases of compensation neurosis/malingering; remission of symptoms was usual except for spinal injuries, but return to previous occupation was not common and, despite the triviality of 70% of the injuries, 73% of the patients were off work for more than 6 months. The factors affecting prognosis are discussed, but the effect of legal settlement of claims could not be assessed accurately.
Source: PubMed
Author: J E Woodyard
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W26017443