Development of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline for rating physical impairment.
Systematic and effective welfare for the disabled is possible when there are scientific and objective criteria demonstrating either presence or severity of the impairment. We need our own scientific criteria suitable for our culture and society, since the impairment is influenced by them. In 2007, we established the Developing Committee of Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS) Guideline for Impairment Rating under KAMS supervision. We included all fixed and permanent physical impairments after a sufficient medical treatment. The impairment should be stable and medically measurable. If not, it should be reevaluated later. We benchmarked the American Medical Association Guides. The KAMS Guideline should be scientific, objective, valid, reasonable and practical. In particular, we tried to secure objectivity. We developed the KAMS Guideline for Impairment Rating.
Lee
Kyeong-Seok
KS
Department of Neurosurgery, Soonchunhyang University Chonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.
Won
Jong-Uk
JU
Kim
So-Yun
SY
Sohn
Myong-Sei
MS
Youm
Yoo-Sik
YS
Lee
Yoon-Seong
YS
Kim
Dong-Jun
DJ
Cho
Soo-Hun
SH
Lee
Mi-Jin
MJ
Choi
Jong-Sang
JS
D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D016730:Program Development; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires