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Approved research projects

In addition to full-funding research projects, WCB-Alberta also provides sponsorship for co-funding, data access, and collection. Co-funding and letters of collaboration assist researchers seeking funding from other agencies, such as the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Data access and collection enables researchers to access claim data for research purposes. This includes the review of historical data, live data collection and surveying. All data requests must satisfy the requirements of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and undergo ethical review by the appropriate institution.

Active Projects

Title   Researcher(s) Time Period
Predictive factors for successful non operative treatment of chronic full thickness rotator cuff tears (pdf, 13KB)   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
kdpletsc@ucalgary.ca		 2008 - 2011
Injured workers at risk of poor recovery: who recovers, who doesn't? (pdf, 10KB)   Dr. Linda Carroll
University of Alberta
lcarroll@ualberta.ca		 2008 - 2011
Further defining the role for capsular plication in shoulder instability surgery (pdf, 10KB)   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
kdpletsc@ucalgary.ca		 2007 - 2010
A randomized clinical trial comparing three methods for anterior Cruciate ligament reconstruction: Patellar tendon, quadruple semitendinosus/gracilis grafts (pdf, 9KB)   Dr. Nicholas Mohtadi
University of Calgary
dsfchan@ucalgary.ca		 2007 - 2012
Arthroscopic versus min-open repair of full- thickness tears of the rotator cuff -  a prospective randomized study (pdf, 13KB)   Ian Lo
University of Calgary
kdpletsc@ucalgary.ca 		2005 - 2011
Prognostic factors in work-related shoulder and knee injury (pdf, 10KB)   Jeremy Beach
University of Alberta
Jeremy.Beach@uablerta.ca		 2006 - 2010
Recurrence of work-related low back injuries:  the association between patient & administrative assessment (pdf, 12KB)   Radoslaw Wasiak, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety
Radoslaw.Wasiak@
LibertyMutual.com

Douglas Gross
University of Alberta
dgross@ualberta.ca		 2005 - 2011

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Additional resources

Information about research initiatives being sponsored by other Canadian workers' compensation boards may be found on the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) website.

Last updated January 22, 2009