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JAMA. 1970;211(1):106-112.

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Preface

Evaluation or rating of permanent disability has long been recognized as an important and complex subject. In the past much confusion has resulted from inadequate understanding by physicians and others of (a) the scope of medical responsibility in the evaluation of permanent disability and (b) the difference between "permanent disability" and "permanent impairment."

It is vitally important for every physician to be aware of his proper role in the evaluation of permanent disability under any private or public program for the disabled. It is equally important for him to have the necessary authoritative material to assist him in competently fulfilling his particular responsibility—the evaluation of permanent impairment. It is the purpose of this and other reports of the Committee on Rating of Mental and Physical Impairment to correct a past confusion of terms and to provide a series of practical guides to the evaluation of various types of permanent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
This is the 12th in a series of guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment authorized for publication by the Committee on Rating of Mental and Physical Impairment. The first 11 guides, with dates of publication in The Journal, are: extremities and back, Feb 15, 1958; the visual system, Sept 27, 1958; the cardiovascular system, March 5, 1960; ear, nose, throat, and related structures, Aug 19, 1961; central nervous system, July 6, 1963; digestive system, April 13, 1964; peripheral spinal nerves, July 13, 1964; respiratory system, Nov 22, 1965; endocrine system, Oct 10, 1966; mental illness, Dec 19, 1966; and reproductive and urinary systems, Nov 13, 1967.

Members of the Committee on Rating of Mental and Physical Impairment: Drs. R. M. McKeown, Coos Bay, Ore, Chairman; D. J. Birmingham, Detroit; G. F. Gsell, Wichita, Kan; H. H. Kessler, South Orange, NJ; Q. W. Mack, Boise, Idaho; D. M. Palmer, Columbus, Ohio; and O. A. Sander, Milwaukee. F. A. Stam, LLB, of Chicago, is Secretary.

Members of the Subcommittee on Skin: Drs. D. J. Birmingham, Detroit, Chairman; W. R. Buckley, Rochester, NY; J. A. Kenney, Jr., Washington, DC; H. M. Robinson, Jr., Baltimore; M. H. Samitz, Philadelphia; and R. R. Suskind, Cincinnati.

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