Product Description
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
- Interpret and apply an FCE report and understand legal implications of FCEs
Chapter Headings
- Introduction to Functional Capacity Evaluation
- Approach to Requesting a Functional Evaluation
- General Testing Principles for Functional Capacity Evaluations
- Baseline Functional Capacity Evaluation Components
- Activities of Daily Living and Psychometric Questionnaires
- Dynamic Material Handling Testing
- Use of Computerized Extremity and Trunk Tests in Functional Capacity Evaluation
- Static Testing in Functional Capacity Evaluations
- Evaluating Movement and Positional Tolerance
- Evaluating Aerobic Capacity
- Assessing Evaluee Effort
- Upper Extremity Functional Testing
- Postoffer Functional Testing for Injury Prevention: Methodological and Practical Considerations
- Job-Specific Functional Testing for Injury Management
- Functional Capacity Evaluation for Patients with Chronic Pain
- Data Analysis and the Functional Capacity Evaluation Report
- Choosing a Functional Capacity Evaluation Evaluator
- Clinician and Insurer Application of Functional Test Results
- Application of the Functional Capacity Evaluation by Vocational Experts
- Legal Issues in Functional Capacity Evaluations
- The Scientific status of Functional Capacity Evaluation
- Conclusions and Agenda for the Future
- Functional Capacity Evaluation Model Descriptions
Additional Information
Author | Elizabeth Genovese, Jill S. Galper |
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Cover | soft cover |