New Approach to AMA Guides Could Mean Annual Updates, Stakeholder-Led Changes

In 1958, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a series of articles that would evolve into the association's 700-page Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, or, simply, the AMA guides. The idea was to give occupational medicine physicians a handy reference to help them determine the extent that injuries would have on patients' abilities. But in the last few decades, the science of medicine “became intertwined with legislation, regulation and compensation,” said David Sosnow, vice president of health solutions for the AMA. Today, le...