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Physician-based surveillance of occupational disease. Part II: Experience with a broader range diagnoses and
H M Fontus1, B S Levy, L K Davis
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
Journal of Occupational Medicine. : Official Publication of the Industrial Medical Association
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
We report on a second phase of a physician-based project on occupational disease surveillance based on both sentinel health events and sentinel physicians. We included participating physicians in seven specialties and incorporated a component to assess the feasibility of using physician reporting to target work site evaluations. We identified 36 patients whose illnesses were probably or possibly work-related. We found that both patients and physicians were reluctant to request workplace evaluations.