How Will Employers’ COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Impact Absence Management
With multiple offices re-opening on account of rising COVID-19 vaccination data, should employers necessitate it as a pre-requisite for employees willing to return to work?
MDGuidelines Launches Duration Analyzer™
MDGuidelines®, the leading evidence-based guidelines for disability and workers’ compensation, today released the MDGuidelines Duration Analyzer™, a new tool for benchmarking claims performance. View the press release here.
California DWC Offers Statewide Access of ReedGroup’s Evidence-Based Guidelines to Providers Who Care For Injured Workers
ReedGroup announces that its practice guidelines from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) are now available complimentary to providers who handle California workers’ compensation cases. California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) launches new website featuring ACOEM content and tools. View the press release here.
Find Your Way through the Maze of PTSD
Approximately 75% of Americans have been exposed to a life-threatening trauma at some point during their lives.1 Responses to such trauma vary widely but may include withdrawal, anxiety, and the phenomenon known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is characterized by troubling feelings and thought processes lasting longer than 30 days.2 The types of trauma … Continued
Do You Know What To Do When Concussion Hits Your Patients?
Helmets are clashing on football fields all over the country this fall, which means thoughts of concussion may be on your brain. Concussion – also known as mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) – is a sudden change in mental status after a mild head injury that may or may not be accompanied by a loss … Continued
ReedGroup®’s Proprietary MDGuidelines® Population Database Grows to More Than 15 Million Cases
The MDGuidelines Population Database now includes more than 15 million real-world illness and injury case claims, allowing clinical and business leaders to measure how their patient populations compare against broader population benchmarks. View the press release here. Leading health and productivity company ReedGroup® today is announcing that its industry leading MDGuidelines® Population Database recently tripled … Continued
Evidence-based practice guidelines protect the health of the American worker
Using only the highest quality evidence-based practice guidelines ensures that patients return to normal activities as quickly and safely as possible. Most people don’t know what goes into the types of research, medical standards and review processes utilized in creating guidelines. But this is worth caring about–because when you rely on a guideline that cuts … Continued
New York State Adopts Workers’ Comp Treatment Guidelines
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has adopted new treatment guidelines for medical care that is provided to injured workers. The New York Medical Treatment Guidelines will become the mandatory standard of care for the back, neck, shoulder, and knee, and will be effective as of December 1, 2010. The new guidelines provide guidance … Continued
Clinical Guidelines & the Ethics of Comparative Effectiveness
In today’s post to his always-excellent blog Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda writes about the ethics of clinical guidelines and the dilemma of comparative effectiveness. He rightly says that… “If we are to solve the access and cost problem, payers, providers, and patients must be comfortable with the decision process and methodology.” And he goes … Continued
Reed Group and ACOEM Renew & Extend Partnership
All of us at Reed Group are very pleased to announce that we have renewed and extended our partnership with The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the leading medical professional society in occupational health. ACOEM’s Practice Guidelines Internet platform (APG-I) will be offered along with our return-to-work durations guidelines on our MDGuidelines.com … Continued
Despite Treatment, Employees with Depression Generate Higher Absentee Costs, According to Thomson Reuters Study
This interesting study by the outstanding researchers at Thomson Reuters and published by our partner ACOEM in their journal speaks to the immense problem of major depression in the workplace. As many readers of this blog will know, the MDGuidelines Predictive Model can give great insight into what to expect when major depression is a … Continued