MDGuidelines with ACOEM Treatment Guidelines

Now available as a single integrated product, the world’s leading treatment and return-to-work guidelines come together to help you to efficiently make the most informed clinical and case management decisions for the benefit of disabled employees.

About Treatment Guidelines

Whether you treat disabled employees in your clinical practice or manage disability cases, our treatment guidelines can help. Treatment guidelines (also called medical practice guidelines or review criteria) are systematically developed sets of patient care strategies developed to assist in clinical decision making for specific medical conditions. The most effective treatment guidelines are evidence-based and physician-reviewed to ensure that they reflect the latest research and clinical thinking on best practices for that medical condition. As an absence management tool, treatment guidelines are used by medical clinicians, claims professionals, and employers to gauge the appropriateness of various treatment plans.

About ACOEM’s Treatment Guidelines

Reed Group is proud to partner with The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine to provide the highest-quality treatment guidelines available to complement The Medical Disability Advisor, the world’s leading return-to-work guidelines. ACOEM represents more than 5,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in the field of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM). ACOEM’s physician-reviewed Practice Guidelines represent the gold standard in treatment guidelines. As of 2004, the State of California requires that its utilization review in workers’ compensation cases be “consistent with” ACOEM’s guidelines.

MDGuidelines with ACOEM Treatment Guidelines

MDGuidelines with ACOEM Treatment Guidelines provides an integrated way to access the world’s leading treatment and return-to-work guidelines in a single intuitive user interface.

And of course, in addition to the predictive modeling capabilities, you get the same superior quality and depth of information that MDGuidelines has been delivering for over 18 years:

• A robust tool data set for managing disabilities including definitions, diagnosis and prognosis, rehabilitation, disability durations, and restrictions and accommodations for over 1,300 of the top disabling conditions
• The deepest and highest quality data
• The most reliable disability durations
• Superior user interface for administrative savings
• Consistent and defendable return-to-work recommendations

MDGuidelines also is available to software providers and content aggregators in an easy-to-integrate XML-based web services format. With web services, customers are able to seamlessly integrate the most recently updated versions of disability durations, predictive recommendations, and referential content into the workflow of their end-users.

The deepest and highest quality data

The MDGuidelines database comprises over 2 million workplace absence cases culled from internal experience, multinational companies, and government organizations. This data is examined by a Medical Advisory Board that verifies its accuracy and adds up-to-the-minute clinical insights to the topics. With its meticulous process of collecting and enhancing outcomes data, MDGuidelines summarizes the latest thinking on treatment, return to work durations, and restrictions and accommodations for disabilities.

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Shorter disability durations

MDGuidelines disability durations are based on physiological recovery time--the time takes to recover from a given injury or illness, providing one has prompt access to medical care. ODG, another provider of return-to-work guidelines, uses publicly available worker’s compensation data to develop its disability durations. The worker’s comp system introduces variables into the management of a case that, for a range of reasons, often extends an employee’s absence from work beyond physiological recovery time. Therefore, our focus on physiological recovery often results in disability duration recommendations that are significantly shorter than our competitor’s.

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Superior user interface for administrative savings

Quintas, an independent user experience consulting firm, found that, on average, users were able to access the right information twice as quickly with MDGuidelines than with ODG’s return-to-work product.

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Consistent and defensible return-to-work recommendations

Because MDGuidelines is based on millions of clinical cases that are rigorously complied, then physician reviewed, your case managers have the information necessary to provide fair, consistent, and defensible recommendations, lowering the risk of litigation and union grievances.

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