scholarly journals The Importance of Occupational Medicine Outpatient Clinics; a Single Center Experience in Turkey

Acta Medica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mehmet Erdem Alagüney
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Outpatient Clinics ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Single Center Experience ◽  
Secondary Health Care

Objective: The specialty of occupational medicine is newly developing in Turkey and the number of specialists and the specialty clinics are very few. The aim of this study is to present the first two-year data of an occupational medicine outpatient clinic. This clinic is unique as it is the first outpatient clinic in a secondary health care center in Turkey (except dedicated occupational disease hospitals), and the first residency-trained occupational medicine specialist in Turkey was running this clinic. The data will be compared with national numbers in order to show if these clinics make a difference in diagnosis and notification of occupational diseases. Materials and Methods: The data is collected from the hospital database between 2017 August to 2019 August who applied to Occupational Diseases Clinic in the hospital. Only the patients who were referred by a physician or applied themselves with suspicion of an occupational disease are included to the study. The patients who applied for periodic examinations, fitness for work evaluations are not included. Results: A total of 491 patients were included to the study. 444 of them did not have a prior diagnosis of occupational disease. Of these patients, 162 (36.4%) were diagnosed with an occupational disease. 42.6 % of these diagnoses were pneumoconiosis. Conclusion: Occupational diseases are underdiagnosed and/or underreported in Turkey. A single center dedicated to occupational diseases made a substantial increase in the number of occupational diseases in two years. In conclusion, these clinics would help improving recognition of occupational diseases.

Computed tomography in diagnosis of silicosis

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
Alina S. Kovaleva ◽  
Igor V. Bukhtiyarov ◽  
Natalya S. Serova ◽  
Tatyana B. Burmistrova
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Resolution Computed Tomography ◽  
Based Medicine

Respiratory system diseases are one of the main problems in contemporary occupational medicine and exceed one fifth of all occupational diseases. Objective of the review was search and analysis of literature on diagnosis of silicosis as an important occupational disease of respiratory organs, by computed tomography and high-resolution computed tomography, from evidence-based medicine viewpoint.

scholarly journals Outpatient Clinic in Obesity Care During COVID-19 Outbreak: Physically Far, Virtually Near. Brief Correspondence on a Single Center Experience: Cohort Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pizza ◽  
Dario D’Antonio ◽  
Chiara Dell’Isola ◽  
Francesco Saverio Lucido ◽  
Claudio Gambardella
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Single Center Experience

Su1182 ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE LIVER BIOPSY: A SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE AT A LARGE, QUARTENARY CARE CENTER

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. AB305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soorya N. Aggarwal ◽  
Travis Magdaleno ◽  
Hiral Shah ◽  
Shashin Shah ◽  
Shanth Goonewardene
Keyword(s):  
Liver Biopsy ◽  
Endoscopic Ultrasound ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Ultrasound Guided ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Single Center Experience ◽  
Needle Liver Biopsy

scholarly journals Occupational Disease as the Bane of Workers’ Lives: A Chronological Review of the Literature and Study of Its Development in Slovakia. Part 1

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5910
Author(s):  
Miriama Piňosová ◽  
Miriam Andrejiova ◽  
Miroslav Badida ◽  
Marek Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Trend Model

This article not only offers a chronological overview of the development of occupational medicine, but also offers a summary of occupational diseases recommended by the ILO and legislative decisions that have influenced how we approach assessment today. We consider that these areas form a whole in which they cannot function without each other and they would lose their relevance if the system was collapsed. By excluding even one part of it, we would find ourselves at the beginning of the era of occupational medicine, and a large number of employees would once again be exposed to conditions that previously led to considerable illness and mortality of employees. The article also examines legislation and the development of occupational diseases in Slovakia in the period 1997–2019. Using basic statistical methods and time series, a trend model for the time series of the development of the number of occupational diseases over the last 20 years is created. The modeling also includes a forecast for the development of the number of occupational diseases for the next 5 years. The model created shows a favorable, decreasing trend in the number of occupational diseases in Slovakia.

scholarly journals Granulomatous pathology in salivary glands: a secondary health care center experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Dr. Pooja Malhotra ◽  
◽  
Dr. Ashish Saraf ◽  
Dr. Naveen Bansal ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Salivary Glands ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Secondary Health Care

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2-related rapid reorganization of an epilepsy outpatient clinic from personal appointments to telemedicine services: A German single-center experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 107483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent M. Willems ◽  
Yunus Balcik ◽  
Anna H. Noda ◽  
Kai Siebenbrodt ◽  
Sina Leimeister ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Single Center Experience

Awareness and Practice of Weaning : A Cross Sectional Survey Among the Mothers Attending Secondary Health Care Center in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (Number 1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
K S Anwar ◽  
N Haque ◽  
S Ahmed ◽  
A Nasreen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Secondary Health Care ◽  
Rural Mothers ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This was a description type of cross sectional study conducted among 210 rural mothers having 0-6 months child, attending the out patient department of Sirajdikhan Upazilla Heath Complex, Munshigonj. Total 210 women were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected through structured questionnaire by face to face interview Out of 210 respondents, majority (59.52%) was in the age group 18-27 years and only 0.48% was above 47 years. Mean age of the respondents was 26.29 years. Most of the respondents (43.33%) completed SSC and only 3.8% were uneducated. Among the respondents 83.33% were house wives. Monthly incomes of the respondents (39.05%) were more than 12000 taka. Most of the mother (80.95%) had children of age 1-3 years. Majority of mothers (77.14%) had conception about requirement of initiation of weaning at 6 months and 15.24% had at 5 months. Maximum respondents (44.76%) had given khichury, 44.29% Shuji and rest of them (10.95%) had given home made food. Mothers (78.57%) continued breast feeding with weaning. About 74.76% respondents complained of occasional vomiting with weaning. Majority (62.38%) of children had given food on time, those children who were provided complementary feeding was physically normal. Majority (57.14%) of mothers had no complained during weaning period. Registered physicians (76.19%) were the health care provider when the children were sick. Although most of the mothers started weaning at appropriate times, we cannot consider it satisfactory. As we must think about all the children and keep all of them healthy, we need to improve this rate up to 100%. Unless we achieve this level we can't achieve our goals of health for all.

scholarly journals Occupational diseases and general practitioners

Sigurnost ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Renata Ecimović Nemarnik ◽  
Marija Bubaš ◽  
Denis Lisica Mandek ◽  
Zoran Šimurina ◽  
Hrvoje Radić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Community Health Centers ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Education Courses

SUMMARY: The aim of this study is to investigate the views of general practitioners regarding the reporting of occupational diseases and the possible link between work status, sickness and assessment of work ability with occupational diseases. The study also places focus on the need to improve collaboration with occupational medicine specialists, on general practitioners' need for education in certain areas of occupational health and occupational diseases, and on topics and ways of implementing education. The subjects were family physicians and general practitioners (50) employed in community health centers in Zagreb. The reported occupational diseases in family physician's surgeries were analyzed. It was found that 26% respondents reported occupational disease, 70% did not report it, and 4% did not know whether or not they had reported occupational disease in the last five years. The most commonly reported occupational diseases were diseases of the musculoskeletal system (38%) and skin diseases (38%). The reasons given for not reporting occupational diseases were that doctors were not aware that those were occupational diseases (91%), and because they feared that the patient may get fired (9%). The vast majority of respondents (94%) agreed that it is necessary to improve cooperation between family physicians and occupational medicine specialists. Seventy eight percent of family physicians were interested in education on how to recognize occupational diseases. Preventive team work on the part of occupational medicine specialists and family physicians using the 'check lists' in family physician's surgeries, and education courses on occupational health would improve primary prevention of occupational diseases, while early detection would halt the progress of occupational diseases and thus reduce ensuing disability caused by occupational disease.

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