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21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits

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      21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends improvements in the medical evaluation and rating of veterans for the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to compensate for illnesses or injuries incurred in or aggravated by military service. Compensation is a monthly cash benefit based on a rating schedule that determines the degree of disability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although a disability rating may also entitle a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language. The current rating schedule emphasizes impairment and limitations or loss of specific body structures and functions which may not predict disability well. 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends that this schedule could be revised to include modern concepts of disability including work disability, nonwork disability, and quality of life.In addition to the need for an updated rating schedule, this book highlights the need for the Department of Veterans' Affairs to devote additional resources to systematic analysis of how well it is providing services or how much the lives of veterans are being improved, as well as the need for a program of research oriented toward understanding and improving the effectiveness of its benefits programs.Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 Veterans with Disabilities in the 21st Century3 Impairment, Disability, and Quality of Life4 The Rating Schedule5 The Medical Examination and Disability Rating Process6 Medical Criteria for Ancillary Benefits7 Individual Unemployability8 Other Diagnostic Classification Systems and Rating Schedules9 Service Connection on Aggravation and Secondary Bases10 Conclusion: Into the 21st CenturyA Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, andStaffB Committee ChargeC The Relationship Between Impairments and Earnings Losses inMulticondition StudiesD The Role of Medical Personnel in Selected Disability BenefitProgramsE Diagram: Assessing Impairment and Functional Disability
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Institute of Medicine EAN: 9780309106313 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: National Academies Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-09-30 CITY: GENRE: WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation, Michael McGeary, Morgan A. Ford, Susan R. McCutchen, and David K. Barnes, Editors, Institute of Medicine
      21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends improvements in the medical evaluation and rating of veterans for the benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to compensate for illnesses or injuries incurred in or aggravated by military service. Compensation is a monthly cash benefit based on a rating schedule that determines the degree of disability on a scale of 0 to 100. Although a disability rating may also entitle a veteran to ancillary services, such as vocational rehabilitation and employment services, the rating schedule is out of date medically and contains ambiguous criteria and obsolete conditions and language. The current rating schedule emphasizes impairment and limitations or loss of specific body structures and functions which may not predict disability well. 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans' Disability Benefits recommends that this schedule could be revised to include modern concepts of disability including work disability, nonwork disability, and quality of life.In addition to the need for an updated rating schedule, this book highlights the need for the Department of Veterans' Affairs to devote additional resources to systematic analysis of how well it is providing services or how much the lives of veterans are being improved, as well as the need for a program of research oriented toward understanding and improving the effectiveness of its benefits programs.Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 Veterans with Disabilities in the 21st Century3 Impairment, Disability, and Quality of Life4 The Rating Schedule5 The Medical Examination and Disability Rating Process6 Medical Criteria for Ancillary Benefits7 Individual Unemployability8 Other Diagnostic Classification Systems and Rating Schedules9 Service Connection on Aggravation and Secondary Bases10 Conclusion: Into the 21st CenturyA Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, andStaffB Committee ChargeC The Relationship Between Impairments and Earnings Losses inMulticondition StudiesD The Role of Medical Personnel in Selected Disability BenefitProgramsE Diagram: Assessing Impairment and Functional Disability
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      Committee on Medical Evaluation of Veterans for Disability Compensation, Michael McGeary, Morgan A. Ford, Susan R. McCutchen, and David K. Barnes, Editors, Institute of Medicine

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