Examining the Use of Biomarkers in Establishing the Presence and Severity of Impairments: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine

As part of the overall disability determination process, the Social Security Administration uses a step-by-step approach to understand how severe an individual's condition is and whether it meets program criteria for disability. The use of various types of biomarkers has been suggested as a way to strengthen the amount and quality of objective evidence available to the review process.

At the request of the Social Security Administration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309682630
• ISBN13: 9780309682633
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"