Master the AMA Guides 5th: A Medical and Legal Transition to Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

Master the AMA Guides' Fifth helps the user make the change to the AMA Guides' Fifth with complete ease and confidence regardless of the role in the evaluation process or how Guides is used. It leads the user logically through the change using side-by-side comparisons of the Fifth Edition with previous editions, from a thorough assessment of how the new edition will change the way physicians evaluate disability all the way through its implications for the legal, regulatory and reimbursement systems.

• Features and Benefits Table-by-table comparison of changes between fourth and fifth editions
• Detailed analysis of complicated cases not addressed in Guides
• Clarification of complex chapters, such as The Spine
• State-by-state analysis of different interpretations of the Guides Medical and legal tips for applying the Guides within your practice
• Determining causation from a medical and legal perspective
• Greater guidance regarding the assessment and use of the pain chapter
• Clarification of some difficult conditions, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and reflex sympathetic disorder
• Book details

Book Details

• Publisher: American Medical Association
• Publication Date: October 22, 2001
• Language: English