A workers' compensation claim allows an injured employee to collect benefits in case of an on-the-job injury, including medical benefits as well as indemnity payments for time lost from work. During ...

The objective of this study was to develop one instrument for assessing quantitatively the disability of severe head trauma patients so their rehabilitative progress could be followed from coma ...

Patient satisfaction ratings after surgery for spinal degenerative disease—especially in terms of reduced pain and disability—are a good indicator of the procedure's effectiveness, reports a study in ...

The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) in its original and extended form assesses disability and social participation and is the most highly cited outcome measure in studies on brain injury The GOS is widely ...

The disability benefits that veterans receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs have become the subject of a growing number of policy papers and editorials that argue those benefits are too ...