New process takes AMA Guides into the future

CHICAGO – Today the American Medical Association (AMA) announced the appointment of a 13-member editorial panel comprised of leading physicians and allied health professionals to curate the AMA Guides^® to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. The panel represents a major step in the development of a new transparent, stakeholder-driven process for maintaining the AMA Guides.  The editorial process will draw on the AMA’s unique collaborative capability to gain insights from the entire health care community and produce timely enhancements to the AMA Guides that reflect current science and evidence-based medical practice.

For more than 50 years the AMA has served as the authority on the evaluation of permanent impairment. Adopted by more than 40 states and several foreign countries, the AMA Guides provide a rigorous methodology to enable fair and consistent evaluation of patients who have suffered an illness or injury that has resulted in a permanent loss of function.