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• ACOEM's New Medical Guidelines for Workers' Compensation

  By Kurt Hegmann Md, Robert J. Barth, Ph.d. Ph.d.  |  August 11, 2010

  The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine soon will release the Third Edition of its Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines: Evaluation and Management of Common Health Problems and Functional Recovery in Workers.

• Scrutinizing Claims of Work-Relatedness in Workers' Comp

  By Robert J. Barth, Ph.d., Ph.d., J. Mark Melhorn, Md  |  July 15, 2010

  Workers' compensation was created to address health problems specifically of a work-related nature. Unfortunately, discrepancies have emerged between that purpose and the reality of modern workers compensation.

• A Scientifically Credible Approach to Impairment Ratings: Florida's History and the World's Future

  By Christopher Brigham, Robert J. Barth, Ph.d.  |  June 17, 2010

  Impairment ratings are an important issue for claims professionals. In state workers' compensation systems they drive more than $20 billion of costs.

• Predicting Benefit From Pain Treatments

  By Robert J. Barth, Ph.d., Ph.d.  |  May 20, 2010

  Psychological and social factors (e.g., mental illness, a history of being physically abused, eligibility for compensation, etc.) are extremely well-established as being predictive of the development of chronic pain.