Measures of Quality

Benchmarks for Employers

Mid-America Coalition on Health Care- Employer Benchmarks and resulting Data Tables

Employers interested in protecting their human and financial resources from the effects of occupational injuries and diseases are hungry for information that will help them study and improve their processes of injury prevention, medical and disability management and successful return to work for their occupationally injured workers.

As a part of the Robert Wood Johnson's Workers' Compensation Health Initiative, 30 major regional and national employers headquartered in Kansas City worked collaboratively with leading medical providers, occupational health service workers and the medical society to improve workers' compensation medical management and facilitate early return to work in Kansas City, Missouri. As a part of this initiative, they designed the Uniform Workability Form . In addition to being a valuable communication form from the physician to the employee, employer and others that may need disability information, it provides a basis for the collection of important information that can help employers improve outcomes of their workers' compensation programs.

Provided here is an example of the data that can be collected using this form that provides important information upon which an employer can monitor and then improve their programs in a number of important areas.

Employers Benchmarking data tables