ANAMT technical guideline: occupational telediagnosis

The relationships between work and health/illness are the main task of the occupational physician, with the occupational medical examination being used to address these relationships, together with a workplace study and epidemiological analyses. This study had as a guiding clinical question: Is telemedicine occupational examination (telediagnosis) accurate compared with in-person occupational examination? The studies were selected by four independent reviewers, meeting the eligibility criteria. The searches resulted in 12,654, 29, 3, and 0 articles retrieved from MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar databases and hand search, respectively. Of this total, 284 studies were selected by title and abstract screening, none of which met the previously established eligibility criteria for study inclusion (references excluded). There is currently no evidence comparing regular or standard (in-person) occupational examination vs telemedicine occupational examination. Therefore, there is no supporting evidence to recommend the use of occupational telediagnosis (occupational examination).