Given the burden of occupational illnesses and injuries in the United States, family
physicians should understand the role workplace exposures may play in patients' chief …

Occupational exposures contribute to the morbidity and mortality of many diseases.
However, occupational diseases continue to be underrecognized even though they are …

Although often omitted from the traditional health history, the occupational history is
fundamental to the suspicion and proof that certain problems are work related. A screening …

Occupational disease is responsible each year in the United States for 50,000 to 70,000
deaths and for approximately 350,000 new cases of illness. Occupational diseases affect all …

By incorporating the principles of occupational medicine into their practices, physicians can
better help those patients with job-related disorders and can improve the management of …

I suggest that the occupational health history taught to current and future primary care
practitioners should focus on a second question:“What is the riskiest part of your job?” The …

PURPOSE: To assess the need for services in occupational medicine, we determined the
prevalence of reported occupational exposures in patients seen in the primary care setting …

Studies have suggested that occupational disease and injury are under-recognized by
clinicians. To estimate the frequency of occupational factors in disease and injury, 108 …

Occupational and environmental diseases frequently masquerade as routine medical
disorders. Yet environmental factors rarely enter into the clinician's differential diagnosis …

Methods The study was conducted at the Rochester Family Medicine Program Model
Practice Unit. The socioeconomic and age distribution of the pa tient population …