Westminster, CO, May 1, 2006... Reed Group announces the selection and usage of The Medical Disability Advisor, (MDA) Fifth Edition Return-to-Work guidelines by the Workers' Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut in Canada. The MDA provides the two Provincial joint boards´ claims staff with medical information on more than 10,000 reference codes for injuries and illnesses of working people.
The Workers' Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut oversees the laws that protect workers in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut: The Workers' Compensation Acts, Safety Acts and Regulations, Mine Health and Safety Acts, and Explosives Use Acts. Their mission is to promote safe workplaces through strong partnerships with employers and workers while providing fair and sustainable benefits. Keeping with that mission, the Workers' Compensation Board of the NWT and Nunavut selected and implemented The Medical Disability Advisor from Reed Group, Ltd., as the reference resource in their claims management processes. The Workers´ Compensation board´s medical and non-medical staff will use the MDA guidelines as support in the decision-making process for their claims.
The MDA guidelines provide evidence-based, objective expectancy figures for normal recovery from medical conditions, injuries, and procedures in its renowned disability duration tables. Only the MDA is based on actual normative case data from over five million case records. The Medical Disability Advisor is the world´s most widely used information resource for disability information with over 22,000 customers worldwide.
About Reed Group, Ltd.
Dr. Presley Reed founded Reed Group in 1981 to address workplace productivity and employee absenteeism in the corporate environment. Reed Group maintains four key lines of business: Guidelines, Service, Data Analytics, and Education. In addition to providing integrated disability case management service for non-occupational and occupational leaves, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and other leave of absence administrative services to employers, Reed Group publishes the industry-standard disability duration guidelines, The Medical Disability Advisor (textbook, Windows software, and Internet and data integration versions), now in its Fifth Edition. For more information, call Shauna Bryngelson, Vice President of Sales at 866.889.4449, or visit www.reedgroup.com.