[Guidelines concerning criteria for confirming occupational diseases]

The authors shared their comments on the criteria for diagnosing occupational diseases operating nowadays in our country. This work has been inspired by an increasing number of inaccuracies observed in medical certificates sent to the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz. It is believed that explanations presented in this paper will assist local sanitary inspectorates in taking proper decisions after receiving reports on clinical diagnoses of occupational diseases.