title: Workers' compensation reform: 180 days in Massachusetts.
abstract: While not the usual Occupational Medicine review article, this description of the 1991 workers' compensation reforms in Massachusetts reveals some of the difficulties and possibilities inherent in such an undertaking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Accidents, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*