Disability and Treatment Guidelines Overview

Disability Duration Guidelines and Treatment Guidelines

Reed Group's guideline products give absence management professionals the tools to provide the best care possible in the most efficient way. The Medical Disability Advisor, Fifth Edition provides benchmarks showing the expected period of absence based on condition and type of work, while the Utilization Management Knowledgebase and Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines present expected courses of treatment.

How do these guidelines improve absence management?

• By providing guidelines that are applied consistently from case to case
• By presenting this information in a format that is easy to use and understand
• By containing costs through a reduction in unexplained variation in care
• By providing medical information that is evidence-based and reliable