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.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
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