Cross-coding from the Swiss Disability Insurance listing to the ICIDH.

It has been suggested that converting, via a process of cross-coding, the listing used by the Swiss Disability Insurance (SDI) for their statistics into codes of the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH) would improve the quality and international comparability of disability statistics for Switzerland. Using two different methods we tested the feasibility of this cross-coding on a consecutive sample of 204 insured persons, examined at one of the medical observation centres of the SDI. Cross-coding is impossible, for all practical purposes, in a proportion varying between 30% and 100%, depending on the method of cross-coding, the level of disablement and the required quality of the resulting codes. Failure is due to lack of validity of the SDI codes: diseases are poorly described, consequences of diseases (disability and handicap, including loss of earning capacity), insufficiently described or not at all. Assessment of disability and handicap would provide necessary information for the SDI. It is concluded that the SDI should promote the use of the ICIDH in Switzerland, especially among medical practitioners whose assessment of work capacity is the key element in the decision to award benefits or propose rehabilitation.

Summary of testimony on disability insurance legislation : including brief summaries of H.R. 2054 (Chairman Pickle), H.R. 2854 (Administration bill), and H.R. 3236 (the Disability insurance amendments of 1979, as reported by the Committee on Ways and Means) /

"August 1, 1979."

Long-range estimates of the financial status of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, 1983 /

"April 1984"

Disability claimants who contest denials and win reversals through hearings /

Includes bibliographical references.

Social Security : observations on demonstration interviews with disability claimants : briefing report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Mean, House of Representatives /

"B-224648"--P. 1.

Disability compensation : current issues and options for change.

Item 1005-C

Disability amendments of 1982 : report together with separate views (to accompany H.R. 6181) (including cost estimate and comparison of the Congressional Budget Office).

"May 26, 1982."

SSA and VA disability programs : re-examination of disability criteria needed to help ensure program integrity.

"GAO-902-597"

Law of social security and unemployment insurance.

Includes bibliography.

Description des possibilités et difficultés d'utilisation des dossiers de l'assurance invalidité à des fins de recherche en pédiatrie.

Afin que la base de données de l'assurance invalidite (AI) soit utilisable à des fins de recherche, il serait nécessaire de restructurer le mode de récolte de données; unifier les définitions de l'impotence et de l'invalidité utilisées à l'AI avec celles de l'Organisation mondiale de la sante (OMS); employer les codes de la classification internationale des maladies (CIM); organiser le système de telle manière qu'il soit possible d'obtenir des listes d'assurés par année de naissance, par année d'entrée à l'AI, par diagnostic et par année d'âge.

Design for dignity : supplemental security for the aged, blind, disabled.

Cover title.

Claims requiring development of additional medical evidence /

"February 1976."

Supplemental security income for the aged, blind, and disabled ; program chart booklet.

Updated version of Its Amendments chart booklet.