Heart disease claims under the California Workmen's Compensation Act.

نویسندگان

R R BEARD

L BRESLOW

R W BUECHLEY

C R GARDIPEE

V W MULLIN

W H THOMAS

چکیده

HE Cardiac in Industry Committee of the California Heart Association in 1951 initiated a study of the problem of the causation or aggravation of heart disease by occupational factors. This field seemed particularly pressing because important decisions affecting the employment of persons with heart disease, and in arranging insurance for them, were being based more uipoin speculation than upon facts. A number of physicians, including some of the Committee, believed that many workmen's compensation claims for heart disease were being made, and that many claimants were l)eing awarded large amounts on tenuous grounds. They felt that an industrial physician could not conscientiously recommend the hiring of a person known to have heart disease because of the excessive "compensation risk." The Committee recognized the claims files of the California Industrial Accident Commission as a valuable source of information and accordingly asked the Commission for access to its records. Thanks to the fact that the Division of Labor Statistics and Research had for several years beeni indexing the case records by diagnostic category it was possible

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