This guide facilitates clear discussions and documentation on how to best use data in FCEs to determine whether or not a patient is able to perform work-related and non-work-related activities involved with the daily activities of living.
Receive Practical Information from the Next FCE You Request
The AMA Guide to the Evaluation of Functional Ability was written for physicians and therapists who have been in search of a standard approach to functional capacity evaluations.
It provides readers with a practical approach to FCEs so that they can gain a deeper understanding of the evidence basis for functional testing and understand how to best request, interpret and apply these functional tests.
With this guide, healthcare professionals are able to:
- Select an FCE evaluator
- Understand differences between various functional tests in order to request the appropriate type
- Determine the degree to which a patient's disability precludes performance
- Incorporate functional assessment into an impairment rating
- Understand patient, medical and legal implications of FCEs with observations on psychological and motivational status
- Design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers' compensation and to rate disability
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