American Medical Association News

AMA Using More Open Process to Update Impairment Guides

Dr. Douglas Martin practices occupational medicine in Sioux City, Iowa. To evaluate the level of impairment for workers’ compensation claimants from his home state, he must use the fifth edition of the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of …

Study Finds Increase in Fall-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Elderly

“Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of hospitalization, disability, and death-worldwide, and among older adults, falling is the most common cause of TBI,” writes Niina Korhonen, B.M., of the Injury and Osteoporosis Research Center, Tampere, Finland, and colleagues …