Product Features
Key Features & Tools
MDGuidelines includes powerful web-based tools and content designed to help people with illness or injury return to health as quickly and safely as possible. Explore what’s possible and learn about our unique product features below.
ACOEM Clinical Practice Guidelines
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Clinical Practice Guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations on how to efficiently diagnose and effectively treat the most common injuries and illnesses related to the working-age population. Clinicians can use the ACOEM guidelines to help return individuals to normal activities as quickly and safely as possible.
Diagnosis and Related Treatments (DART)
Quickly search by medical code or keyword to find a topic covered by the ACOEM Clinical Practice Guidelines. You can indicate what category of treatment you are looking for, such as diagnostic interventions or medications, and what phase of treatment the patient is in, such as acute or chronic. You can also search by treatment.
Formulary
The Formulary is a unique tool to promote quality of care, positive therapeutic outcomes, and safe, cost-effective drug choices. Based on recommendations from the ACOEM Practice Guidelines, the Formulary provides evidence support for therapeutic agents so that healthcare providers can choose the most appropriate medication therapy for work-related injuries.
Disability Durations
The Durations tool provides expected recovery times based on a database of 25+ million real-world claims. You can review physiological healing times and discover which comorbid conditions are most likely to affect disability durations.
Health Advisor
The MDGuidelines Health Advisor covers more than 1,200 medical conditions and procedures, providing resources to enhance the quality and consistency of patient care and improve patient outcomes. Health Advisor topics include evidence-based content helps set expectations for recovery.
Medical History Questionnaires
ACOEM-designed intake forms that help clinicians collect relevant health information from patients
Crosswalks
The Crosswalk tool aligns diagnosis and procedure codes to diagnostic and treatment recommendations found in ACOEM and state-specific guidelines.
ACOEM Workflows
Evidence-based visual algorithms used to support clinical decision-making
Library
Access MDGuidelines research studies, webinar recordings, infographics, news articles, and more.
Medical Codes
The Medical Codes tool helps case managers and clinicians find medical codes and see related information such as code description, whether the code is “billable” or “non-billable,” and what MDGuidelines durations and Health Advisor topics are associated with a medical code.
State Guidelines
This tool provides links to medical treatment guidelines from across the country, including: California, Colorado, New York, Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin, Louisiana and more.
