Chasing Pain Complaints Doesn’t Work: Why Function Belongs at the Center of Workers’ Compensation Care

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Risk & Insurance - Mar 02, 2020

Body temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure. These are the four primary vital signs used by doctors and nurses to measure your body’s most basic functions and detect life-threatening medical problems. Or at least they were until 2001, when the Joint Commission dubbed pain “the fifth vit...

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