Cardiovascular disability : updating the Social Security listings / Committee on Social Security Cardiovascular Disability Criteria, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Social Security Cardiovascular Disability Criteria.

Contributor:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on the Health of Select Populations.

National Academies Press (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social security--Law and legislation--United States.

Social security.

Cardiovascular system--Diseases--United States.

Cardiovascular system.

Disability insurance--United States.

Disability insurance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2010], c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Overview""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Social Security Disability Programs and Procedures""; ""3 Cardiovascular Disability Trends""; ""4 Approaches to Revising the Cardiovascular Listings""; ""5 Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy,and Right Heart Failure""; ""6 Heart Transplantation""; ""7 Ischemic Heart Disease""; ""8 Peripheral Artery Disease""; ""9 Chronic Venous Insufficiency""; ""10 Congenital Heart Disease""

""11 Pulmonary Hypertension""""12 Valvular Heart Disease""; ""13 Arrhythmias""; ""14 Aneurysm or Dissection of the Aorta and Peripheral Arteries""; ""15 Comorbidities""; ""16 Future Directions for Improving the Listings""; ""Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff""; ""Appendix B: Literature Review""; ""Appendix C: Review of ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines""

Notes:

"The primary purpose of the consensus committee was to make recommendations designed to improve the utility of the cardiovascular listings for evaluating disability claims by improving the sensitivity of the listing criteria to identify individuals who meet SSA's definition of disability, that is, those who are no longer able to engage in substantial work activities."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-16359-5

1-282-91707-2

9786612917073

0-309-15699-8

OCLC:

923282728