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The AMA Guides (R) to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury
Causation, second edition, helps form, strengthen and support
assessments of causation and correlation. Case examples are
included as powerful learning tools to assist health care providers
in making informed, evidence-based medical determinations involving
disease and injury. Professionals can provide an informed opinion
on workers' compensation or disability cases based on a careful
review of an individual's clinical findings when linking (or not
linking) the condition in question to medical evidence. Determine
Individual Causation for Work-Related and Non-Work-Related
Conditions. Edited by J. Mark Melhorn, MD, James B. Talmage, MD,
William Ackerman III, MD, and Mark H. Hyman, MD, with 13 nationally
recognized contributing experts, the second edition of the AMA
Guides to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation is the
ideal reference material for: Physicians Nurse case managers Health
care providers State workers' compensation Attorneys Legislative
agencies Easy-to-use format, content is organized by body system:
Read a chapter cover-to-cover for comprehensive education or look
up data on a single current case Search by diagnosis to find all
causation-related data Scientifically determine causation with help
from evidence tables listing relative risk and/or hazard ratios
Completely revised with new chapters on: Causation perspectives by
specialty International causation Issues for public safety
personnel Whole body vibration on the spine
Second edition Confidently handle return to work and work ability
issues Risk, capacity and tolerance. Once understood, these three
return to work-related issues can help guide physicians through
work ability and work 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. Practical features and second edition updates include: *
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 * A new chapter featuring international
perspectives on return to work Ideal for: * Physicians, primarily
orthopedists, neurosurgeons, and primary care physicians * Nurse
case managers * Nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants who
function as primary care providers * Lawyers involved in claims
handling * Disability insurers * Workers' compensation
administrators * Human resource managers
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