MDGuidelines with Predictive Duration Modeling

MDGuidelines with Predictive Duration Modeling enables case managers to create individualized disability duration recommendations and return-to-work plans for each disabled employee’s unique situation.

MDGuidelines with Predictive Duration Modeling enables case managers to create individualized disability duration recommendations and return-to-work plans for each disabled employee’s unique situation.

MDGuidelines provides the most trusted and highest quality return-to-work data on the market. And now MDGuidelines introduces a powerful new capability: predictive duration modeling. This tool allows users to input multiple clinical and demographic factors, such as age, gender, job class, and additional medical conditions (comorbidities), and receive a more customized, insightful prediction of disability duration.

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.

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.

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.

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.