Taking an occupational history: its value in avoiding a misdiagnosis
Occup. health South. Afr. (Online)
; 14(3): 4-8, 2014.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
Taking an occupational history is crucial for identifying an occupational disease; avoiding a misdiagnosis and directing the further medical and administrative management of a patient who also happens to be a worker. There are two components of an occupational history; a set of screening questions and a set of in-depth questions which can provide information on the occupational relatedness of a disease. Occupational presentations such as polymer fume fever and its consequences as presented in this paper can be missed in the absence of an occupational history. Reinforcing training in occupational history-taking teaching in undergraduate medical training programmes can contribute to improved diagnosis of occupational disease in clinical practice; and consequent improvements in the detection and reporting of occupational diseases
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Main subject:
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
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Diagnostic Errors
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Occupational Diseases
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Occup. health South. Afr. (Online)
Year:
2014
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Article
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