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AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Work Ability and Return to Work, Second Edition (AMA Guides To...) 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

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Risk, capacity and tolerance. Once understood, these three “return to work”-related issues can help guide physicians through work- and ability-related cases for numerous diagnoses and body systems. Structured with these themes in mind, this easy-to-read publication includes the latest medical literature reviewed by experts and step-by-step guidance to help negotiate return to work cases. Updated from the bestselling first edition published in 2005, this highly anticipated second edition includes forms that can be used to communicate return to work guidelines, disclaimers to use when writing guidelines and current science on functional capacity evaluations. Features and Benefits Four new chapters: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Obstetric and Hematology-Oncology Updated approaches and references from more than 20 new contributors Implications of unemployment, medication, work aspects and driving Forms that can be used to communicate return to work guidelines Disclaimers to use when writing return to work guidelines Tips on negotiating with patients Current science on functional capacity evaluations Chapters organized by body system, making it easy to use as a reference text for a particular system or diagnosis Tables contain recommended disability durations by diagnosis The Cardiopulmonary chapter has been divided into separate cardiac and pulmonary chapters
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    978-1603595308
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    American Medical Association
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    June 29, 2011
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    English
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0767J32H6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Medical Association; 2nd edition (June 29, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 29, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 26378 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 804 pages
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Craig Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars Very telling of the disability review process
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This is a very old method of determining disability that focuses exclusively on biomedical evidence. (The objective evidence does not support his numerous subjective complaints.) I bought it because it was referenced in my denial of benefits documentation. The statement in parentheses came from my letter of denial of benefits. No, I don’t agree with the methodology of this book, but I was very glad to understand where the denial of benefits was coming from. It currently makes a great doorstop for my bedroom door.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Any doctor doing medical impairment evaluation or disability assessment need ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2017
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Any doctor doing medical impairment evaluation or disability assessment need to read this book. It details sound scientific principles and sound practical philosophical approach to work and the total real benefit of work on the human existence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource....
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Really a good tool for RTW and Treatment Guides in addition to being a great help in addressing both of these issues with an MD provider in the Work Comp field. Very glad to have it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars As advertised
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Phillip Bussey
3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Starting Point
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2011
This guide is a good starting point on a way of thinking about what is a complex issue that is likely a day to day problem for physicians, and one about which few are taught much during their training. Start here, but please understand there are limitations associated with this approach that may raise questions about the foundation for their opinions that an evaluator will likely have difficulty answering short of referring back to elements used with which they may not be totally familiar.

For example, the authors suggest basing the evaluation on a patient's risk, capacity, and tolerance for work activity, using in part the Social Security Administration's (SSA) criteria for the degree of impairment present for one body system or another. See[...] for the listing that is current as of July 18, 2011.

No reference appears to be made to the fact that the Administration holds to themselves in a legal sense the interpretation of these listings, and even the SSA does not use a literal interpretation of the guidelines, but rather consider them as they may have been modified over time by other regulations and court decisions. Consequently the SSA is quite likely to disagree with an evaluator's stated opinion to the effect that a patient does not appear to meet the guidelines so they are able to work. This may be due in part to the fact that the SSA considers the Listings within the framework of many other elements that I do not believe are mentioned in this Guide (and my apologies to the authors if I missed this discussion). See [...]for the current SSA listing of these factors, which continues through section 404.1568.

Finally, I did not note any guidelines for how evaluating physicians can do a full and accurate identification and analysis of the job activities and physical demands of the patient's job at the time of injury, which would seem to be an important element for evaluating a person's capacity for returning to work at their past work or for any other work for which they might qualify by the nature of their background and other elements referenced in [...] and elsewhere.

So, although I believe the publication would be a good starting point it does not quite take us to the point where its use can likely allow an evaluating physician to fully and accurately predict a person's capacity to work on a regular, sustained, and predictable basis.

Phillip Bussey, Ph.D., CRC
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Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2018
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Very useful book. No regrets.
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Solid!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Literatura excelente
Reviewed in Brazil on May 21, 2017
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Excelente,
Uma ferramenta que nenhum médico do trabalho e perito pode deixar de ter.
Recomendo a todos os colegas que se propõe a fazer medicina do trabalho e pericias
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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable.
Reviewed in Spain on April 21, 2014
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Soy medico del trabajo en españa y este libro mi guia del dia a dia. Me ha hecho mas facil la vida.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Livro essencial
Reviewed in Brazil on June 2, 2018
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Livro com tema bem abrangente , auxiliando médicos do trabalho e saúde ocupacional a ter um referencial para tomada de decisões sobre a capacidade laboral e o retorno ao trabalho .
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