AMA Guides 5th Edition - California Orthopaedic Association
AMA Guides 5th Edition - California Orthopaedic Association
AMA Guides 5th Edition - California Orthopaedic Association
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Support for Rating by Analogy• The physician’s judgment, based uponexperience, training, skill, thoroughness inclinical evaluation, and ability to apply the<strong>Guides</strong> criteria as intended, will enable anappropriate and reproducible assessmentto be made of clinical impairment.• Clinical judgment, combining both the “art”and “science” of medicine, constitutes theessence of medical practice.<strong>AMA</strong> <strong>Guides</strong>, Chapter 1, page 11