Surveillance of occupational lung disease: comparison of hospital discharge data to physician reporting.
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 80 (10) , 1257-1258
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.80.10.1257
Abstract
A survey of 762 New Jersey physicians showed that 35% reported seeing patients with either asbestosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, occupational asthma or silicosis. Three to four times as many patients with these diagnoses were seen as outpatients as were hospitalized. The implications of these results in using hospital discharge data for occupational disease surveillance are discussed.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Surveillance of Occupational Illness and Injury in the United States: Current Perspectives and Future DirectionsJournal of Public Health Policy, 1988