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Considers the evidence and patient function to achieve physician interrater reliability through a consensus approach. This book includes a series of uniform grids in each chapter providing a standard for impairment evaluation. It offers a standardized approach to determine impairment using patient history, physical examination and clinical tests.

Detailed documentation and compliant diagnosis coding are critical for proper risk adjustment. Risk Adjustment Documentation & Coding provides risk adjustment parameters to improve documentation related to severity of illness and chronic diseases, and code abstraction designed to improve diagnostic coding accuracy without causing financial harm to the practice or health facility.

Written by practicing physicians and legal experts who regularly face return-to-work (RTW) issues, this publication simplifies the complex issues of work ability and disability certification into three relevant themes: risk, capacity and tolerance. These themes will help guide physicians through work ability and work cases for numerous diagnoses and body systems.

This second edition of AMA Guides (R) to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation 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.