AMA guides to the evaluation of work ability and return to work
By: [edited by] James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, Mark H. Hyman
Contributors: American Medical Association
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: American Medical Association
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781603595308
Subjects: Work capacity evaluation; Work; Psychology; Vocational rehabilitation; Disability evaluation; Workers' compensation; Rehabilitation; Convalescence; Psychological aspects; Employment; Disability Evaluation
Other titles: Guides to the evaluation of work ability and return to work
Description: "This book will help the reader think through helping patients with return-to-work decisions when persisting symptoms and problems from illness or injury make work difficult"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: A physician's guide to return to work / editors, James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn. c2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why staying at work or returning to work is in the patient's best interest / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark Hyman; title: How to think about work ability and work restrictions : risk, capacity, and tolerance / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark Hyman; title: How to negotiate return to work / J. Mark Melhorn and James R. Rainville; title: Return to work: forms, records, and disclaimers / J. Mark Melhorn and Mark H. Hyman; title: Evidence-based medicine and causal analysis / J. Mark Melhorn, Kurt T. Hegmann, and Elizabeth Genovese (posthumous); title: Functional capacity evaluation in return-to-work decision making: risk, capacity, and tolerance / Douglas P. Gross and Michiel F. Reneman; title: The medical and legal aspects of return-to-work decision making / David J. Depaolo; title: Disability determinations and return to work / Les Kertay; title: Medications, driving, and work / James B. Talmage, J. Mark Melhorn, and Mark H. Hyman; title: The challenges to and importance of the primary care physician's role in return to work / Douglas Martin; title: Working with common spine problems / Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach; title: Working with common upper extremity problems / J. Mark Melhorn and Shirley M. Seaman; title: Working with common lower extremity problems / Randy Lea; title: Working with common cardiovascular problems / Mark H. Hyman, Jawali Jaranilla, and Thomas E. Kottke; title: Working with common pulmonary problems / Mark H. Hyman and Philip Harber; title: Working with common neurologic problems / Edwin H. Klimek; title: Working with common rheumatologic problems; title: Working with common gastrointestinal problems / Cynthia Ko; title: Urologic disease Christopher / J. Welty, Michael Porter; title: Working during pregnancy / Anjel Vahratian; title: Hematology/oncology / Michael Feuerstein and Gina Bruns; title: Working with common psychiatric problems; title: Working with common functional syndromes : fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome / James B. Talmage; title: International perspectives on return to work / Dwight Dowda, Clement Leech, Karen Belkic.