Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability: How to Request, Interpret and Apply Functional Capacity Evaluations (AMA) - Softcover

Elizabeth Genovese; Jill S. Galper

 
9781603590013: Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability: How to Request, Interpret and Apply Functional Capacity Evaluations (AMA)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1603590013 ISBN 13: 9781603590013
Publisher: American Medical Association, 2009

Synopsis

This book helps you to understand the use of FCEs in determining disability. Bridging the gap between impairment and disability, the ""AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability"" provides a practical approach to functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) in relation to assessing patients' physical ability. With this book, readers will be able to: know the differences between various functional tests to request the appropriate type; design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers' compensation and to rate disability; clearly discuss and document how to best use the data in FCEs to assess a patient's ability to perform work-related and non-work-related activities of daily living, or ADLs; and, interpret and apply an FCE report and understand legal implications of FCEs.

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Synopsis

This book helps you to understand the use of FCEs in determining disability. Bridging the gap between impairment and disability, the "AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability" provides a practical approach to functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) in relation to assessing patients' physical ability. With this book, readers will be able to: know the differences between various functional tests to request the appropriate type; design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers' compensation and to rate disability; clearly discuss and document how to best use the data in FCEs to assess a patient's ability to perform work-related and non-work-related activities of daily living, or ADLs; and, interpret and apply an FCE report and understand legal implications of FCEs.

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1603590013
ISBN 13 
9781603590013
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
500