Inability to work: Medical experts often disagree
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The findings from a team of researchers from
"Globally, around half of all disability claims were denied based on independent medical evaluations. However, our review of the studies found that experts are frequently in disagreement on whether an individual is incapable of working," says
Medical evaluations are often used to assess a person's capacity to work and have far-reaching consequences for employees, whose ability to work can be restricted by illness or accident.
The reason medical professionals tend to offer varying assessments can likely be traced back to the lack of standards. "We found evidence that structured evaluation processes could improve the reliability of assessments," said
"Any assessment cannot be valid unless it is reliable - that is, if it is incapable of measuring what it is supposed to measure," adds co-author
As a result, researchers determined that tools and structured approaches needed to be developed and tested in order to improve the assessment of incapacity to work.
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