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Disability Management
Aka: Disability Management
- See Also
- Disability
- Impairment Evaluation
- Disability Evaluation
- Functional Capacity Evaluation
- Assistive Technology
- Letter of Medical Necessity
- Disability Referral
- Activities of Daily Living
- Failure to Thrive in the Elderly
- Elderly Drivers with Cognitive Impairment
- Medication Use in the Elderly (Beers List, STOPP)
- Guideline: Enlist team Approach
- Foster early patient-employer communication
- Employer defines alternative work duties
- Consider Occupational Health for difficulties
- Health-care team
- Physical Therapy
- Guideline: Lay out anticipated course
- Discuss realistic healing and recovery times
- Early progressive activity maximizes outcome
- Write activity prescription
- Reduces Chronic Pain risk
- Avoids illness reinforcement (see Somatization)
- Guideline: Approach recommendations systematically
- Maintain patient confidentiality
- Obtain all relevant medical records
- Clearly notify patient when ready to return to work
- Patient should receive a copy of work recommendations
- Specifically define work capabilities
- Consider workplace policies, resources, and demands
- Foremost, protect public and co-worker safety
- Clearly outline recovery plan (see above)
- Approach: Medical Disability Claims
- Criteria for medical Disability
- Physiologic or psychologic Impairment
- Work status affected by Impairment
- Protocol
- Assess that patient meets Disability criteria above
- What Disability certification is patient seeking?
- See Worker's Compensation Disability
- See Private Disability Insurance
- See Social Security Disability Insurance
- See Americans with Disabilities Act
- See Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- What defines Disability for certification requested?
- References
- (1997) Can Med Assoc J 156:680A-C [PubMed]
- Barron (2001) Am Fam Physician 64(9): 1579-86 [PubMed]
- Derebry (1983) J Occup Med 25:829-35 [PubMed]
- McGrail (2001) Am Fam Physician 63(4):679-84 [PubMed]
- Soderstrom (1998) Occup Med 13:273-8 [PubMed]