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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Study Mandate." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1999. Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6406.
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APPENDIX A
Review of the Social Security Administration's Disability Decision Process Research

STUDY MANDATE

The study will review and provide advice on the scope of work, design, and content of the survey, and the approach and scientific methods of completed and planned research as the Social Security Administration (SSA) develops the new disability decision process. The study will focus on the population 18-69 years of age. Although the committee is given latitude in setting its own agenda and designing its plan of work, the topics it explores will include:

  •  Review of the research plan and timeline for developing a new decision process for disability;

  •  Review of the preliminary design of the Disability Evaluation Study (DES) research efforts, the scope of work for the DES, and the design and content of the survey, as proposed by the survey contractor, as well as SSA's plans to integrate the decision method and DES research effort, identifying statistical design, methodological, and content concerns, and other outstanding issues;

  •  Examine the results of completed research including research into existing functional assessment instruments and subsequently identified research for SSA's redesign efforts, and provide advice for adopting or developing functional assessment instruments or protocols for the redesigned disability process and the DES in particular; and

  •  Assess the results and findings of the research undertaken by SSA, comment on future research proposals, and offer advice on the analysis of the consequences of alternative disability determination processes. Some of the topic areas that might be considered include: functional assessment of work-related limitations of physical and mental impairments; disability decision processes (including screening mechanisms); testing and validating decision processes for determining disability; and age, education, and work experience.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Study Mandate." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 1999. Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6406.
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reengineering its disability claims process for providing cash benefits and medical assistance to blind and disabled persons under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program (Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act). As one element of this effort, SSA has proposed a redesigned disability determination process. The agency has undertaken a multi-year research effort to develop and test the feasibility, validity, reliability, and practicality of the redesigned disability determination process before making any decision about implementing it nationally. SSA requested the National Academy of Sciences to review and provide advice on its research relating to the development of a revised disability decision process, including the approach, survey design, and content of the Disability Evaluation Study (DES). One of the committee's tasks is to examine SSA's research into existing and other developing functional assessment instruments for the redesign efforts and to provide advice for adopting or developing instruments for the redesigned decision process and the DES.

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