The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.
- FrontMatter
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables, Figures, and Boxes
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Executive Summary
- Overview
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Social Security Disability Programs and Procedures
- 3 Cardiovascular Disability Trends
- 4 Approaches to Revising the Cardiovascular Listings
- 5 Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy,and Right Heart Failure
- 6 Heart Transplantation
- 7 Ischemic Heart Disease
- 8 Peripheral Artery Disease
- 9 Chronic Venous Insufficiency
- 10 Congenital Heart Disease
- 11 Pulmonary Hypertension
- 12 Valvular Heart Disease
- 13 Arrhythmias
- 14 Aneurysm or Dissection of the Aorta and Peripheral Arteries
- 15 Comorbidities
- 16 Future Directions for Improving the Listings
- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
- Appendix B: Literature Review
- Appendix C: Review of ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines
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