... industrial disabilities. © 2020 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. 2020 American Medical Association California Permanent Disability System Labor-disabling Pre-existing Disability Maximal Medical Improvement (MMI) Permanent Disability (PD) Retroactive Prophylactic Work...

... to produce a final disability rating. The schedule adopted on January 1, 2005 (new schedule) uses impairment ratings according to AMA Guides for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment Fifth Edition as the first step in determining permanent disability (PD). The impairment ratings are adjusted by factors...

.... The opinions expressed in this article are the authors’ and do not reflect the views of the American Medical Association or the AMA Guides Newsletter Advisory Board. For decades prior to 2004, permanent disability (PD) benefits in California's workers’ compensation system had been determined...

... Guides 5th ed. for evaluations and ratings of permanent disability. Colorado 3rd Revised Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-42-101, § 8-42-107 Colo. Revised Stat. § § 8-42-101 and 8-42-107 provide for use of AMA Guides 3rd ed. revised. Connecticut State Specific Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-308 Generally, PD...

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... include recent stress, six or more physical symptoms, higher patient ratings of symptom severity, lower patient ratings of their overall health, physician perception of the encounter as difficult, and age less than 50. ( Keeley 2000 ) Two thirds of depressed patients in a Stanford/Kaiser Permanente study...