NEW FOURTH EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!!
Completely revised and updated, this edition is a must for anyone involved in the medical certification decision process for commercial drivers.

Pub. Date: September 2007
ISBN: 978-1-883595-48-7
Format: Paperback, 275 pages. 

Science on the Witness Stand will be a welcome addition to the library of any medical or legal professional whose work involves presenting medical evidence in a legal context.

The book offers a complete look at the factors to be considered in a variety of legal proceedings, from claims adjudication to liability and other medical/legal proceedings. It begins by introducing an innovative approach the authors call evidence-based medical dispute resolution, then moves on to discuss the elements and logic to be presented in a medical opinion, the principles and procedures of civil litigation, and the jurist's view of scientific evidence. Issues of causality and admissibility of evidence and testimony are presented, along with individualized medical evaluation and personal risk, impairment, and evidentiary needs in environmental law and occupational health law.

Science on the Witness Stand is a must-have resource for lawyers and expert witnesses who need to present scientific knowledge and apply it in the courtroom or in claims adjudication. Its evidence-based medical dispute resolution approach gives legal and health care professionals a useful new way to evaluate evidence from the biomedical and population health sciences as it applies to law and the resolution of social issues. And it offers an effective new way for legal and medical professionals to collaborate smoothly and successfully.

Pub. Date: 2001
ISBN: 1-883595-31-2
Format: Paperback, 428 pages 

Pub. Date: 1998
Format: Hardcover 

OUT OF PRINT This book provides an overview of the concepts and models of disablement and the major US and Canadian disability systems. Particular attention has been paid to the definitions and terminologies inherent to each system and to the evaluating and reporting requirements each system poses to the disability examiner.

Pub. Date: 2000
Format: Hardcover. 325 pages. 

Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

2007 Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) Treatment Set

Pub. Date: 2006
Format: Softcover 

A new edition for this book has been released. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

2007 Official Disability Guidelines (ODG)and Top 200 Conditions

Pub. Date: 2006
Format: Paperback 

A new edition for this book has been released. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

2007 Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) Top 200 Conditions


Covers those conditions that represent about 80% of total lost work-days, in a lightweight portable edition.

Pub. Date: 2006
Format: Paperback 

A new edition for this book was published in March 2007. Please follow the included link to be directed to the latest edition. Thank you.

Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects, Fourth Edition

 

The ACOEM publication "Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, Second Edition" is now available directly from ACOEM. To purchase copies of the Guidelines phone 847-818-1800 x399 or fax 847-870-1793 or go online to www.acoem.org. An electronic version is also available here. 

The newly revised Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, emphasizes the fundamental skills physicians need to evaluate and communicate patient impairments.

The sixth edition applies both terminology from and an analytical framework based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), to generate five impairment classes which permit the rating of the patient from no impairment to most severe. A diagnosis-based grid has been developed for each organ system. The grid arranges commonly used ICD-9 diagnoses within the five classes of impairment severity, according to the consensus-based dominant criterion.

Functionally based histories, physical findings and broadly accepted objective clinical test results are integrated where applicable to help physicians determine the grade within the impairment class. The result is a decision that is both transparent and reproducible.

Format: Hardcover, 634 pages
Publication Date: 2008