Total disability days in interprovincial and home‐province workers injured in Alberta, Canada: A mixed‐methods study with matched‐pair analysis of compensation data and participant interviews

Introduction Workers moving between states or provinces to find employment are reported to take longer to return to work after the injury. Methods The Alberta Workers Compensation Board (WCB) identified all workers from four Canadian Atlantic provinces who sustained a work injury in Alberta resulting in greater than 5 total temporary disability days (TTDDays) from January 2015 to June 2017. Each was matched on sex, age, and injury date with an...