{"product_id":"the-medical-disability-advisor-workplace-guidelines-for-disability-duration-2nd-edition","title":"The Medical Disability Advisor: Workplace Guidelines for Disability Duration (2nd Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Medical Disability Advisor  Fourth Edition  was written precisely for this getting disabled employees back to work in good health and on time. This reference work quickly emerged as the industry standard. Today  thousands of human resource professionals  insurance companies  doctors and nurses use its helpful guidelines and duration timetables. Ten years ago  Reed Group  Ltd. combined the finest medical research with an easy-to-understand communications style to create a revolutionary resource  The Medical Disability Advisor  First Editionalso known as \"the Guidelines.\" Updating this hardback about every three years  Reed Group recently completed the most significant upgrade in the publications The Medical Disability Advisor  Fourth Edition. This book offers a plenitude of information for getting disabled employees back to work at the appropriate time. Nicely organized  it describes over 1 000 medical conditions and procedures that may affect the working population. The book illustrates its information with colored drawings  tables  and graphs. The text provides clearly formatted subtopics in a predictable order  to aid the user in locating information quickly. The Medical Disability Advisor provides \"durations\" (numbers of days a given disability will generally last for a given job classification) and \"explanations\" that make those disability durations applicable to the individual employee. Both the durations and the explanations result from medical and statistical research. Under the expertise of the Medical Advisory Board  they are continually refined with each edition  and they are keyed to ICD-9 CM codes. The Medical Disability Advisor \"durations\" result from evidence-based medicine practiced at its best intentions. Individual clinical expertise is weighed against clinical data in order to provide the most accurate treatment or recommendation regarding each particular case. The medical expertise allows an intelligent use of data that takes into account the impurities and selection biases inherent in any purely quantitative study. The data  similarly  alerts the individual expert of phenomena that his or her personal experience has not encountered. The result is a balanced  rational  and humane tool for managing a multitude of disability cases as consistently and personally as possible. The latest edition takes advantage of new information about conditions such as fibromyalgia  carpal tunnel syndrome  complex regional pain syndrome  depression and other complex medical issues. It now includes guidance regarding alternative and complementary therapies as well as a host of other factors that affect disability duration. The duration tables  themselves reviewed and modified  have already been reported by several companies to further reduce company expenditures related to employee absence. The Medical Disability Advisors most vital role is to provide a framework for non-adversarial communication among interested employees employers case managers benefits administrators labor organizations workers compensation health care providers insurance companies Primarily intended for those involved in managing medical disabilities  The Medical Disability Advisor is useful as a desk reference work that explains many medical conditions in ordinary English (with technical terms in parentheses).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966810878005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0934753520","price":453.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780934753524.jpg?v=1770581589","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-medical-disability-advisor-workplace-guidelines-for-disability-duration-2nd-edition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}