Articles tagged under ‘Assessment of capacity’

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• Webinar recording: Independent Medical Examiners: Assessing capacity for work

  Dr Mary Wyatt explores the role of the IME in assessing work capacity for injured or ill employees.

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• What is an IME?

  IME stands for Independent Medical Examination. They are used for a variety of reasons, depending on the situation.

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• When disaster strikes

  The support offered to a worker with catastrophic injuries can be vital to the person's recovery.

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• Recorded webinar: The medical assessment of work capacity

  This webinar explores how doctors determine a person's work capacity.

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• Patient advocacy and workers' comp

  Workers' comp cases present GPs and other health professionals with opportunities for meaningful patient advocacy. How can these be seized?

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• Functional Capacity Evaluations: the pitfalls.

  A look at the role of the professional in explaining the results of an FCE.

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• Profession profile: OT

  If your injury management program isn't bridging the gap between the workplace and the doctor's office, an Occupational Therapist could help...

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• Fact sheet: Medical certification in Australia

  Sickness certificates can be dangerous. Proceed with caution!

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• Cancer-related disability: getting on with life and work

  Cancer patients need thorough reviews post treatment so they can return to suitable working environments.

Archived Articles 1 - 4 of 4

• Discord grows in the UK over work capacity assessments

  World endeavours in disability management - Challenges for the UK with mass assessments of work ability.

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• Health and work: Boon or bust?

  The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine wants you to reconsider the health / work relationship.

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• News drop: Australia Post

  Who said what to the Senate inquiry into Australia Post's injury management practices? And what can be learnt from these grievances aired in public?

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• The disability support pension process: unnecessarily stressful?

  Qualified assessors the key to determining disability pension eligibility.

Research 1 - 3 of 3

• Research short: What is the best way to evaluate permanent impairment?

  A study has raised doubts about whether the new edition of the American Medical Association's guides for the evaluation of impairment are an improvement on existing practice.

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• The 'work ability' divide

  Who falls in the anti-collaboration chasm when doctors and insurers have different ideas about what 'work ability' involves?

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• Critical illness, brain impairment and RTW

  Are neurocognitive impairments being identified early enough, or at all, after critical illness?