[Social medicine results of expert assessment of work disability]

Disability for work is both a medical and a socioeconomic problem. Hence, a great number of publications on this item can be found in scientific literature. These evaluations are mostly based on case statistics. Individualised evaluations, that means, personal statistics, are comparatively rare. This is also a matter for the medical advisory service of the German sickness insurance (MDK), charged with sociomedical expertising for disability to work, particularly in respect of an assured curative effect and additional aftercare measures if necessary. An individualised evaluation (follow-up study) of expertises of disability with regard to frequency of prescribed additional measures is presented.