Opioid-Related Harms Among Ontario Workers: Leveraging the Occupational Disease Surveillance System as a Surveillance Tool for Working Populations

Summary

Project ID: 2021-861/ TRIM 2022 0970 275 000

Principal Investigator: Paul Demers

Description: The overall objective of this project is to establish a surveillance program for opioid-related adverse health events in the Ontario workforce by adapting and expanding an existing surveillance cohort of workers (the Occupational Disease Surveillance System).
Pertaining to this data request, one specific objective of this project is to compare annual incidence rates of opioid-related harms in the ODSS worker cohort to those in the general population of Ontario, overall and according to the demographic, nature of injury, and occupational characteristics of workers.

PIA approved: September 8, 2021

Status: In progress