Software AMA Guides 6th edition for Impairment rating

Software AMA Guides 6th edition for Impairment rating

 

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According to AMA, the sixth edition was designed to provide rating percentages that consider (1) clinical and functional history, (2) examinations, and (3) clinical studies to help physicians determine a grade within an assigned impairment class. The reason for this new approach was to determine an impairment rating that is both transparent and reproducible.

Changes incorporated into the sixth edition include the following:

 Ratings that are largely diagnosis-based and diagnoses that are evidence-based when possible

 Standardized assessment of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) limitations associated with physical impairments

 Functional assessment tools to validate impairment rating scales

 Measures of functional loss in the impairment rating

 Improvement in overall intrarater and interrater reliability and internal consistency

 Five ICF impairment classes from Class 0 (normal) to Class 4 (very severe)

 

The sixth edition of the AMA Guides, published in December 2007, introduced new approaches to rating impairment, including one based on a modification of the conceptual framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). The ICF method is used as a common basis for description of human function and impairments