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MDGuidelines: Methodology & Data You Can Trust
The Gold Standard
We leverage industry-leading analytics that measure ROI and can benchmark return-to-activity performance against a dataset of more than 18 million real-world disability claims.
Chosen by state governments, insurers, physicians, and employers, MDGuidelines is available via subscription. Our content can be accessed by an easy-to-navigate website or an integration with your organization’s workflow system.
Helping Patients, Providers, and Payers
MDGuidelines addresses healthcare’s Quadruple Aim by enhancing the patient experience, improving outcomes, lowering costs, and improving the work life of healthcare providers and care teams.
Unmatched Focus on Quality
High-quality data and literature drives everything we do, from predictive modeling and making medical recommendations, to updating our duration estimates and generating treatment cost calculations. MDGuidelines includes evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

Disability & Return-to-Activity
MDGuidelines was founded over 40 years ago by Dr. Presley Reed. Helping people return to health after illness or injury is at the heart of our work. Return-to-activity information benefits managers, nurse case managers, and claims professionals who use MDGuidelines to better understand condition and procedure information and recovery estimates.

Workers' Compensation
MDGuidelines’ evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and return-to-activity information and durations, along with a drug formulary, help healthcare providers, case managers, claims professionals, carriers, and regulators manage workers’ compensation cases more effectively.

Industry's Most Trusted Guidelines
MDGuidelines has been designed to support the specific needs of different types of subscribers. With proprietary tools like the Duration Analyzer and the Job Title Explorer, MDGuidelines delivers a new level of accuracy and relevance for professionals in healthcare, disability, workers' comp and insurance.
ACOEM
MDGuidelines is the sole publisher of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s (ACOEM) gold standard, evidence-based guidelines. ACOEM, founded in 1916, is the nation’s largest medical society dedicated to promoting the health of workers through preventive medicine, clinical care, research, and education.
ACOEM’s clinical guidelines incorporate the latest evidence-based, peer-reviewed medical studies and meet the National Academy of Medicine’s quality standards. ACOEM recommendations power everything from our Formulary to our Treatment Recommendations using easy-to-search tools.
Read the latest ACOEM Methodology paper to learn more about how the clinical guidelines are created.
ACOEM Member Sign Up
ACOEM membership now includes free access to MDGuidelines, for research purposes only, not for commercial use.
Learn more about how to become an ACOEM member at www.ACOEM.org