Tools and Resources: Lower Extremity Conditions: Combination vs Duplication

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Randall Lea ◽  
William Shaw
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
New South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Accident Compensation

Abstract This article discusses uses of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) in Australia and New Zealand. In addition to its use in the United States, the AMA Guides also is used in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and some European countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway. Use of the AMA Guides varies from country to country, depending on local workers’ compensation or personal injury legislation. In Australia, the AMA Guides is used in various state systems, but the editions used or recommended may differ. Often, cases in which the impairment predates December 1988 (when the current Commonwealth Workers’ Compensation Act became effective) are assessed in terms of the AMA Guides, Fourth Edition. Although many physicians use the Fourth Edition, others refer to the Table of Disabilities (Div 4/S66 of the New South Wales Workers’ Compensation Act) and Victoria prefers the AMA Guides, Second Edition. At the federal level, Australia has adopted the Guide to the Assessment of the Degree of Permanent Impairment (1989 but under revision at the time of writing). In New Zealand, the Accident Compensation Commission officially adopted use of the AMA Guides, Fourth Edition, in 1997.

International Use of the AMA Guides® to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Mohammed I. Ranavaya ◽  
Christopher R. Brigham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Fourth Edition

Abstract Since its inception more than six decades ago, the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, (AMA Guides), has become internationally accepted as a global benchmark and is used in the United States, Canada, certain European countries, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa, as well as by the United Nations. When the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, adopted the terminology and conceptual framework of disablement developed by the World Health Organization, this paradigm shift let to an increase in the worldwide influence and use of the AMA Guides. In the United States, the AMA Guides is used primarily in state and federal workers’ compensation systems and sometimes in automobile casualty and personal injury arenas. Most workers’ compensation jurisdictions across Canada use the AMA Guides formally by statute or regulation, or they accept its use informally as a standard tool to rate impairment. In Australia, the AMA Guides is used in both federal and individual state or territory compensation schemes for personal injuries that arise from work, as well as motor vehicle accidents (a table presents uses of the AMA Guides in Australian jurisdictions). New Zealand uses the AMA Guides, Fourth Edition, and the ACC User Handbook to the AMA “Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,” Fourth Edition. The AMA Guides is used in Hong Kong to evaluate all types of damages for personal injury claims and also is referenced in Southern Africa, Europe, and countries in the Middle East.

scholarly journals The Australian Picture

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 879
Author(s):  
Harold Luntz
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Major Health ◽  
High Profile ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Accident Compensation ◽  
Health Insurers

Australia faces a climate of change with accident compensation following recent high profile personal injury cases, the collapse of two major health insurers, and the release of the Ipp Committee Report. This paper follows Australia's response to these developments, focusing on New South Wales' initial reform of tort law, and suggests that the current and proposed changes may cause more harm to an already fragile system.

A Note on the Specific Identity of Trichostrongylus longispicularis Gordon, 1933

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Male ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Specific Identity

The nematode Trichostrongylus longispicularis was described by Gordon (1933) from a single male recovered from a sheep in New South Wales. Gordon considered that the male of this species could be readily distinguished from the males of other species of the genus recorded from ruminants by an asymmetrical dorsal ray of the bursa and by the length and form of the spicules. The dorsal ray is described as being bifid, one bifurcation being simple and the other possessing secondary branches, one situated internally and the other externally. The slender spicules were 184·6 microns long, and terminated in fine sickle-shaped structures.Andrews (1934 and 1935) recorded the species from cattle in the United States. In his first description (Andrews, 1934) he noted that his specimens agreed very closely with the description published by Gordon (1933), but he referred to hook-like projections on the spicules. However, he failed to find these projections in the specimen discussed in his record of 1935. As he made no reference to the dorsal ray of the bursa, it is presumed that this agreed with the description and figure published by Gordon (1933). T. longispicularis was subsequently reported by Roberts (1938 and 1939) from cattle in Queensland, but no comments were made on its morphology.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Stress Testing – an Update

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Stress Testing ◽  
New South ◽  
Exercise Stress ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Accident Compensation ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Independent Medical Examinations ◽  
Medical Examinations

Abstract This article updates one published in The Guides Newsletter in January/February 1998 and reflects changing legislation in the workers’ compensation area and also in motor accident compensation. In the various Australian state and federal jurisdictions, impairment rating has become an important component of independent medical examinations, and in many areas, impairment guides have been adopted as a mandatory tool for assessing permanent impairment. For example, in the mid-1990s the state of Victoria established use of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fourth Edition, as the sole tool for evaluating impairment and continues to use this edition to the present time. Despite the publication of the AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, in 2000, the Motor Accidents Authority in New South Wales (NSW) continues to use the fourth edition, supplemented with the NSW Motor Accidents Authority Guidelines. In November 2001, Tasmania adopted the same guidelines that were being used by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority. Despite publication of the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, in 2007, there has remained a general reticence in Australia to progress to use of this latest edition either as stand-alone impairment rating tools or an underpinning of the purpose-developed impairment guidelines already in place. A large number of Australian medical assessors have become used to the model based on the NSW WorkCover Guides for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, which interprets the AMA Guides, Fifth Edition.

William Henry Fitchett: Methodist, Englishman, Australian, Imperialist

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
John Stuart ◽  
Ian Welch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Present Article ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
South Wales

AbstractHistorians of colonial Australia have long been fascinated by the effects of religious change on urban New South Wales and Victoria in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period, it is generally acknowledged, was one of evangelical revival amongst Anglicans and nonconformists alike. Well known (and sometimes world-renowned) evangelists from Great Britain and the United States invariably included cities such as Sydney and Melbourne on their international itineraries. But the local evangelical presence was strong; and this article focuses on William Henry Fitchett, a Melbourne-based evangelical Methodist clergyman who has largely escaped the attention of historians of religion. The reason he has done so is because he achieved fame in a rather different field: as a popular author of imperial histories and biographies. His published works sold in the hundreds of thousands. Yet he also wrote many serious works on religious matters. This article places Fitchett in the context of evangelical mission and revival within and beyond Australia, while also paying due attention to the influence of religion on his writing career. Les historiens de l'Australie coloniale ont longtemps été fascinés par les effets des transformations religieuses dans le monde urbain de New South Wales et Victoria durant le dernier quart du 19e siècle. Cette période est généralement considérée comme ayant été celle d'un Réveil évangélique parmi les Anglicans et les non-conformistes. Des évangélistes connus (et parfois mondialement connus) venus de Grande Bretagne et des Etats-Unis incluaient invariablement dans leurs périples internationaux des villes comme Sydney et Melbourne. Mais la présence évangélique locale était aussi forte, et cet article se concentre sur un pasteur de l'Eglise Méthodiste évangélique basé à Melbourne, William Henry Fitchett, qui a largement échappé à l'attention des historiens de la religion. La raison en est qu'il s'est rendu célèbre dans un domaine autre que religieux, à savoir comme auteur populaire d'histoires et biographies impériales. Les travaux qu'il a publiés se sont vendus par centaines de milliers d'exemplaires, mais il a aussi écrit des œuvres sérieuses sur des questions de religion. Le présent article replace Fitchett dans le contexte de la mission évangélique et du Réveil en Australie et au-delà, tout en se penchant sur la question de l'influence de la religion sur sa carrière d'auteur.

scholarly journals Occurrence of Passiflora Latent Carlavirus in Cultivated and Wild Passiflora Species in Australia

Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Pares ◽  
L. V. Gunn ◽  
E. N. Keskula ◽  
A. B. Martin ◽  
D. S. Teakle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immunoelectron Microscopy ◽  
Inclusion Bodies ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Passiflora Edulis ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Commercial Cultivars ◽  
Survey Results

A carlavirus was found to be widespread in commercial passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plantings in New South Wales and Queensland. The particles observed were flexuous rods with mean dimensions of 651 × 12 nm. The particles often occurred in cells as aggregates but were never associated with pinwheel inclusion bodies, as is typical with passionfruit woodiness potyvirus. The particles showed a strong affinity (by immunoelectron microscopy) for antiserum prepared against Passiflora latent carlavirus (PLV) from Germany but increasingly less affinity for antisera against potato viruses S and M and PLV from the United States. Survey results indicated that PLV has been present in Australian passionfruit for more than 10 years and is widespread in most commercial cultivars in New South Wales and Queensland. The virus was twice found in wild Passiflora suberosa, once in wild P. subpeltata, and once in a feral seedling of P. edulis near an infected planting of P. edulis.

The Moment of Release

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-149
Author(s):  
Katherine Ellinghaus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The U.S

During the twentieth century some Australian states and the U.S. federal government enacted comparable policies that demonstrate how the discourse of protection continued to survive in an era when settler nations were focussed on “assimilating” Indigenous populations. The Australian policy of exemption and the U.S. policy of competency did not represent a true change in direction from past policies of protection. In contrast to the nineteenth century, though, these twentieth-century policies offered protection to only a deserving few. Drawing on records of exemption and competency from New South Wales and Oklahoma in the 1940s and 1950s, this article shows how the policies of exemption and competency ostensibly gave the opportunity for some individuals to prove that they no longer needed the paternalism of colonial governments. They were judged using very different local criteria. In Australia, applicants were mostly judged on whether they engaged in “respectable” use of alcohol; in the United States, applicants were assessed on whether they had “business sense.”

Psychiatric Diagnosis in New South Wales Compared to England and Wales

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Parker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotic Depression ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales

SummaryComparative studies of first admission rates to psychiatric hospitals have revealed significant differences in the rates of diagnoses of functional psychoses between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.The present study examined the diagnoses of indigenous patients born between 1921 and 1955 and first admitted to hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, and England and Wales. Admission rates for mania were in striking agreement. The rate in New South Wales for schizophrenia was slighdy higher and for psychotic depression considerably less than in England and Wales.A similar trend in diagnostic dissonance would appear to exist between England and Wales and New South Wales as between England and Wales and the United States for schizophrenia and psychotic depression, but this is considerably less in degree.

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