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What are the benefits of medical screening and surveillance?
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- A Novel Questionnaire and Algorithm for Work-Related Asthma Screening and Surveillance: An EAACI Task Force Report.Allergy · 2025Article
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- Infectious disease surveillance for refugees at borders and in destination countries: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Remote screening of retinal and optic disc diseases using handheld nonmydriatic cameras in programmed routine occupational health checkups onsite at work centers.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021Article
- Supporting Occupational Physicians in the Implementation of Workers' Health Surveillance: Development of an Intervention Using the Behavior Change Wheel Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Work-related asthma: A position paper from the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the National Asthma Council Australia.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2020Review
- Progress in Occupational Asthma.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- [Characteristics of asthma cases reported as a suspected occupational disease in Navarra. Period 2010-2015].Revista espanola de salud publica · 2018Article
- Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2017Review
- Recommendations for a Clinical Decision Support System for Work-Related Asthma in Primary Care Settings.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Review
- Medical surveillance and long-term prognosis of occupational allergy due to platinum salts.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2017Observational
- No Place Like Home? Surveillance and What Home Means in Old Age.Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement · 2016Article
- Isocyanates and work-related asthma: Findings from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2008.American journal of industrial medicine · 2015Article
- Diisocyanate-induced asthma in Switzerland: long-term course and patients' self-assessment after a 12-year follow-up.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2014Article
- Diagnostic approach in cases with suspected work-related asthma.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2013Article
- What are the benefits of medical screening and surveillance?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2013Article
- What are the benefits of medical screening and surveillance?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2013Article
- Allergy-related disorders in the construction industry.ISRN preventive medicine · 2013Review
- You say goodbye, and I say hello!European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2012Article
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Abstract
Pre-employment examination is considered to be an important practice and is commonly performed in several countries within the European Union. The benefits of medical surveillance programmes are not generally accepted and their structure is often inconsistent. The aim of this review was to evaluate, on the basis of the available literature, the usefulness of medical screening and surveillance. MEDLINE was searched from its inception up to March 2010. Retrieved literature was evaluated in a peer-review process and relevant data was collected following a systematic extraction schema. Pre-placement screening identifies subjects who are at an increased risk for developing work-related allergic disease, but pre-employment screening is too low to be used as exclusion criteria. Medical surveillance programmes can identify workers who have, or who are developing, work-related asthma. These programmes can also be used to avoid worsening of symptoms by implementing preventive measures. A combination of different tools within the surveillance programme, adjusted for the risk of the individual worker, improves the predictive value. Medical surveillance programmes provide medical as well as socioeconomic benefits. However, pre-employment screening cannot be used to exclude workers. They may act as a starting point for surveillance strategies. A stratified approach can increase the effectiveness and reduce the costs for such programmes.
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