American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 19th Annual Workers Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 19th Annual Workers Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries is organized by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons - (AAOS) and would be held during Nov 03 - 05, 2017 at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Of America.

Improving Outcomes with Back-to-Work, Legal and Administrative Strategies. Orthopaedic surgeons and health care professionals turn to this established course to increase their effectiveness beyond clinical treatment to incorporate current legal, administrative, ethical, and insurance issues into handling workers’ compensation cases.

New topics and faculty offer current perspectives to causation, diagnosis, and treatment options to improve outcomes for work-related injuries. Learn effective strategies for handling the related non-medical issues such as utilization review, causation, report writing, medical liability, depositions, and communication skills with patients.

Conference Objectives are :

• Evaluate patients with musculoskeletal pain resulting from workplace injury and formulate a treatment plan with appropriate return-to-work guidelines
• Manage the administrative and legal requirements of workers' compensation or medical liability cases
• Compare and contrast surgical and nonsurgical treatment protocols for workplace injuries
• Identify how to avoid unnecessary disability
• Gain familiarity with impairment evaluations and reports
• Improve report writing and develop new skills in office management for work-related injuries
• Use science to document return-to-work decisions

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.