Tri-service Disability Evaluation Systems Database Analysis and Research Annual Report 2012

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene E. Gubata ◽  
David W. Niebuhr ◽  
David N. Cowan ◽  
Elizabeth R. Packnett ◽  
Caitlin D. Blandford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
Evaluation Systems

Tri-service Disability Evaluation Systems Database Analysis and Research Annual Report 2013

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene E. Gubata ◽  
Michael R. Boivin ◽  
David N. Cowan ◽  
Elizabeth R. Packnett ◽  
Amanda L. Piccirillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
Evaluation Systems

Tri-service Disability Evaluation System Database Review Annual Report 2010

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Niebuhr ◽  
Marlene E. Gubata ◽  
David N. Cowan ◽  
Elizabeth R. Packnett ◽  
Caitlin D. Blandford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
System Database

Understanding Physician Use of Online Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 30-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Horan ◽  
Bengisu Tulu ◽  
Brian N. Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Online Systems ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Physician Participation ◽  
Intent To Use ◽  
Work Structure ◽  
Behavioral Intention To Use

This chapter develops a conceptual model for physician acceptance and tests this socio-work structure model using a nationwide survey of physicians (n = 141). The domain focus of this study is physician acceptance of online disability evaluation systems for generating and managing medical examination reports. The survey measured whether behavioral intention to use the new system varied as a function of IT infrastructure, organizational readiness relating to IT, physician experience with computer use in clinical settings, and both specific and general attitudes toward online system use in clinical settings. Survey findings suggest that each of these factors affects behavioral intent to use online disability evaluation systems and that these factors are more important than generalized attitudes toward online systems or socio-demographic predictors. Findings suggest that work-practice variables are important when considering physicians use of online systems. The chapter concludes with a discussion of implications for devising advanced testing systems that can be used to ensure active physician participation in medical informatics systems

1999 Annual Report

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Eugene B. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report

Behavioral Factors Impact Impairment and Disability Evaluation

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Lee Ensalada
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Illness Behavior ◽  
Validity Testing ◽  
Symptom Validity Testing ◽  
Disease Pattern

Abstract Illness behavior refers to the ways in which symptoms are perceived, understood, acted upon, and communicated and include facial grimacing, holding or supporting the affected body part, limping, using a cane, and stooping while walking. Illness behavior can be unconscious or conscious: In the former, the person is unaware of the mental processes and content that are significant in determining behavior; conscious illness behavior may be voluntary and conscious (the two are not necessarily associated). The first broad category of inappropriate illness behavior is defensiveness, which is characterized by denial or minimization of symptoms. The second category includes somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, and malingering and is characterized by exaggerating, fabricating, or denying symptoms; minimizing capabilities or positive traits; or misattributing actual deficits to a false cause. Evaluators can detect the presence of inappropriate illness behaviors based on evidence of consistency in the history or examination; the likelihood that the reported symptoms make medical sense and fit a reasonable disease pattern; understanding of the patient's current situation, personal and social history, and emotional predispositions; emotional reactions to symptoms; evaluation of nonphysiological findings; results obtained using standardized test instruments; and tests of dissimulation, such as symptom validity testing. Unsupported and insupportable conclusions regarding inappropriate illness behavior represent substandard practice in view of the importance of these conclusions for the assessment of impairment or disability.

Clinical Update: Functional Capacity Evaluations—An Update

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Welch
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Submaximal Effort ◽  
Lack Of Sleep ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Specific Limitation

Abstract Functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) have become an important component of disability evaluation during the past 10 years to assess an individual's ability to perform the essential or specific functions of a job, both preplacement and during rehabilitation. Evaluating both job performance and physical ability is a complex assessment, and some practitioners are not yet certain that an FCE can achieve these goals. An FCE is useful only if it predicts job performance, and factors that should be assessed include overall performance; consistency of performance across similar areas of the FCE; consistency between observed behaviors during the FCE and limitations or abilities reported by the worker; objective changes (eg, blood pressure and pulse) that are appropriate relative to performance; external factors (illness, lack of sleep, or medication); and a coefficient of variation that can be measured and assessed. FCEs can identify specific movement patterns or weaknesses; measure improvement during rehabilitation; identify a specific limitation that is amenable to accommodation; and identify a worker who appears to be providing a submaximal effort. FCEs are less reliable at predicting injury risk; they cannot tell us much about endurance over a time period longer than the time required for the FCE; and the FCE may measure simple muscular functions when the job requires more complex ones.

Letter to the Editor: The Continuing Challenge of Evaluating RSD Impairment and Disability

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Robert L. Knobler ◽  
Charles N. Brooks ◽  
Leon H. Ensalada ◽  
James B. Talmage ◽  
Christopher R. Brigham
Keyword(s):  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Major Cardiac Event ◽  
Clinical Scenarios ◽  
Impairment Score ◽  
Occupational Activities ◽  
The Difference

Abstract The author of the two-part article about evaluating reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) responds to criticisms that a percentage impairment score may not adequately reflect the disability of an individual with RSD. The author highlights the importance of recognizing the difference between impairment and disability in the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides): impairment is the loss, loss of use, or derangement of any body part, system, or function; disability is a decrease in or the loss or absence of the capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands or to meet statutory or regulatory requirements because of an impairment. The disparity between impairment and disability can be encountered in diverse clinical scenarios. For example, a person's ability to resume occupational activities following a major cardiac event depends on medical, social, and psychological factors, but nonmedical factors appear to present the greatest impediment and many persons do not resume work despite significant improvements in functional capacity. A key requirement according to the AMA Guides is objective documentation, and the author agrees that when physicians consider the disability evaluation of people, more issues than those relating to the percentage loss of function should be considered. More study of the relationships among impairment, disability, and quality of life in patients with RSD are required.

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