"Cumulative, concise, unbiased data on lengths of disability for all possible illnesses or injuries...By using ODG companies can easily: 

• Compare their personnel's disability durations against others' 
• Control workers' compensation claims and insurance costs 
• Plan better budgets and increase profits." 

- American Medical Association 

"Unlike Medical Disability Advisor, Work-Loss Data Institute surveyed the entire population within the databases it used. ODG presents different but more concise and detailed figures for its disability duration analysis. ODG comes the closest to meeting its stated purpose and achieves a more valid presentation of the data. The author strongly suggests that the reader purchase the Official Disability Guidelines..."

- Disability Eval & Rehab Review, National Association of Disability Evaluating Professionals 

"Official Disability Guidelines contains experience data from four different government databases linked into one complete and easy-to-use reference."

- Safety and Health Magazine, National Safety Council 

"Official Disability Guidelines has been greatly enhanced to include new features that users have indicated are crucial in managing disabilities. Analyses of feedback from past experience data has created a 'Best Practice' guideline for each ICD-9-CM. ODG will continue to prove to be an indispensable resource to any organization for setting standards for attendance and paid or unpaid sick time, evaluating workers' compensation claims, managing overtime costs, reviewing and compensating employees, reducing legal liability and controlling insurance premiums."

- Risk Management Newsletter, American Society of Safety Engineers 

"Official Disability Guidelines provides material for... reducing legal liability, and controlling insurance premiums [and] contains features that users have indicated are crucial in managing disabilities."

- Occupational Health and Safety 

"Guidebook Pegs Lost Days. Official Disability Guidelines documents lengths of disabilities for more than 10,000 conditions ranging from carpal tunnel syndrome to the common cold."

- Employee Benefit News 

"Take advantage of big savings in the trend toward standardized policies for disability leave. By adopting guidelines for the duration of specific illnesses and injuries, you can eliminate the inconsistencies that crop up when physicians prescribe time off. Big business has caught on to the idea and seen their costs drop. Now small businesses can also implement guidelines without costly disability management costs. [One of] your best bets... Official Disability Guidelines."

- Business Briefings 

"If one understands the caveats of interpreting the data presented in Official Disability Guidelines and understands the particular job requirements of the individual in question, Official Disability Guidelines is the better buy [compared to Medical Disability Advisor]."

- Occupational Health Management 

"Resource helps CMs [Case Managers] slash absenteeism...Four separate government databases have been linked into one reference book [ODG] to help workers' compensation case managers make determinations about reasonable lengths of time away from work for sickness or injuries. ODG features such as a 'Best Practice' guideline for each ICD9 indicating strategies for managing a particular disability. Each 'Best Practice' guideline recommends durations for each condition, incorporating the pertinent job and treatment criteria, and calculates expected outcomes based on these criteria."

- Case Management Advisor 

"Work-Loss Data Institute saw a need for such guidelines as corporate down-sizing has spread nationally during the past 5 to 6 years, which has led to fewer staff members to handle larger workloads. This has increased the staff members' chances of occupational illness or injury while making employee absenteeism and productivity crucial to a business's success or failure."

- OT Practice, American Occupational Therapy Association 

"Official Disability Guidelines provides brief information on typical length of hospital stays and recovery periods for just about every imaginable injury or ailment, and is less expensive [than other sources]."

- What's New in Benefits & Compensation 

"Official Disability Guidelines includes a keyword index, which is organized alphabetically by disease, condition, or injury. It gives the ICD-9-CM code and page number for a quick lookup in the main section."

- The Case Manager 

"The report serves as a reference on lengths of disabilities and is designed to help employers measure, manage, and motivate employee productivity." 

- HR Magazine, Society for Human Resource Management

"ODG contains data from four government databases, linked into a single reference."

- Risk and Insurance 

"[Official Disability Guidelines is] designed to help measure, manage and motivate employee productivity."

- Human Resource Executive