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AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
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Title Details
6th Ed.
2025 © American Medical Association
Douglas W. Martin MD, FACOEM, FAAFP, FIAIME; J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS, FABOS, FACOEM, FACS, FAAHS, FASSH, FIAIME
ISBN-13: 978-1-64016-340-9
Physical Medicine, Diagnosis
Additional Details
The AMA Guides® to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition, 2025 (AMA Guides Sixth 2025) updates and reinforces the international standard for the assessment of permanent impairment first published in 2008.
AMA Guides Sixth 2025 was posted on AMA Guides Digital on Dec. 2, 2025 and is considered the most current version of AMA Guides Sixth. The AMA Guides Sixth 2025 is based on the most current science as adopted by the AMA Guides Editorial Panel. Physicians and other qualified health care professionals who perform permanent impairment evaluations should review the state and jurisdictional requirements regarding use of AMA Guides Sixth 2025.
More than 40 states and several countries recognize the AMA Guides as the authority on evaluating permanent impairment and require raters in their jurisdiction to use the AMA Guides.
Summary of 2025 updates
The AMA Guides Sixth Edition (2008) is considered the foundation for updates to the AMA Guides, and all annual updates to the AMA Guides build upon the changes that precede them. AMA Guides Sixth 2025 builds upon the changes issued in AMA Guides Sixth 2024.
The AMA Guides Sixth 2025 update applies current practices and standards to the pulmonary system content (Chapters 5) and minor updates to ear, nose, throat and related structures content (Chapter 11).
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