Workers' compensation. A psychiatric follow-up study

In a follow-up survey of 106 settled workers' compensation cases which involved some degree of psychiatric impairment, there was found to be a high prevalence of cases in which the settlement correlated with no improvement in the patient's subjective feelings of well-being, and no improvements in employment status. There was also a large percentage of cases in which the individual continued to operate at a less adaptive level of functioning, as judged by the evaluating clinician.