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PubMed1976

A system for evaluating and treating chronic back disability.

Five methods of personality assessment are evaluated to provide guidance for the psychological treatment of patients with chronic back pain. Patient pain drawings, pentothal pain studies, stress score index, psychological testing with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and response to treatment challenge are used as measurements for evaluation. This evaluation gives the treating staff guidelines for individual treatment programs utilizing operant conditioning techniques. Using this approach, three fourths of the severely disabled patients seen have been successfully treated.

Back Pain↗
PubMed1979

[Evaluation of the degree of disability for the privately insured patient (author's transl)].

There are marked differences between the public health system and the private insurance system. This paper shows how to evaluate the degree of permanent disability according to "The General Rules for Private Insurances (AUVB 1965)". At the beginning the evaluation of the degree of permanent disability after the visus naturalis or the visus corrected and at unilateral and bilateral aphakia will be discussed. The paper gives detailed information on the degree of disability for: one injured eye, one injured eye with preexisting ocular lesion, bilateral injury, one injured eye with preexisting lesion of the other eye, one injured eye with preexisting ocular lesions of both eyes, bilateral injury with preexisting lesions of both eyes. For bilateral lesions, the degree of disability is calculated as a function of the reduction in activity by the AUVB 1965; this is given in one table. The rules applying to Austria are compared to those valid in the Federal Republic of Germany (AUB). It is very important to understand these methods of calculation, if one wants to secure an objective ophthalmological evaluation of the degree of disability for the privately insured patient.

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PubMed1976

[Problems posed by professional rehabilitation of cardiac patients].

The authors have followed up children with cardiac defects over almost a twenty year period. During the 1960's most of their patients had come of age, and they conclude that despite the enthusiasm of these young people and their potential, they have the greatest difficulties in finding work. This seems regrettable from the human as well as the socio-economic point of view. They propose that the law should be changed as, indeed, should the spirit of the law, so that; a subject with heart disease should no longer be considered as incapable of useful work, and that each person should be assessed according to his potential. They envisage the setting up of medico-administrative cardiological centres. Thus, in addition to the purely medical cardiological consultation, three additional persons would add their expertise: a social worker, an industrial medicine inspector, and an employment officer. These centres could be instituted easily, without making the existing system too unworkable.

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