Physician-based surveillance of occupational disease. Part II: Experience with a broader range diagnoses and physicians.
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.
Fontus
H M
HM
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
Levy
B S
BS
Davis
L K
LK
D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011336:Probability; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D013038:Specialization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires