Why Reed Group Guidelines?

Reed Group’s MDGuidelines delivers superior return-to-work information that facilitates effective decision-making, case management, and optimal employee outcomes.

It’s important to know that the quality of return-to-work guidelines varies dramatically. Reed Group’s MDGuidelines offers the highest quality and most trusted return-to-work information in the world, providing your organization with the most value for its decision-support expenditure.

MDGuidelines is based on rigorous collection, analysis, and physician review of cases.

MDGuidelines is developed with a rigorous process of case collection and analysis. The MDGuidelines database contains over 2 million actual disability cases, carefully screened for statistical validity. The data set, compiled for each of over 1,300 medical topics, is then analyzed by our Medical Advisory Board, a committee of over 50 acknowledged experts in occupational and employment-related medicine. These physicians ensure that the information in each topic, including the recommended disability durations, are consistent with agreed-upon best practices in treating and transitioning disabled employees back to work at full health and productivity. The Medical Advisory Board’s work provides your organization with fair, consistent, and defensible recommendations on realistic time frames for recovery.

The Medical Advisory Board’s editorial focus is on the physiological time it takes to recover from a given injury or illness. Physiological recovery time accounts for the time it normally takes to heal from a given illness or injury, providing one has prompt access to medical care.

“Budget” return-to-work guidelines can end up costing a bundle.

ODG, another provider of return-to-work guidelines, uses publicly available worker’s compensation data to develop its disability duration recommendations. The worker's compensation system, for a range of reasons, introduces variables into the management of a case that often extends one's absence from work beyond physiological recovery time.

As an employer, case manager, or health care provider, you have a choice: you can manage absence durations to the poor past performance suggested by worker’s compensation claims data, or you can use the physiological recovery times contained only in MDGuidelines. While worker’s comp data can be effectively used for benchmarking, Reed Group believes one should always manage a case to physiological recovery time.

Return-to-work guidelines are no place to cut corners. Your employees and your organization’s bottom line will benefit from the quality of MDGuidelines.