TY - JOUR
T1 - Sentinel health events (occupational)
T2 - A basis for physician recognition and public health surveillance
AU - Rutstein, David D.
AU - Mullan, Robert J.
AU - Frazier, Todd M.
AU - Halperin, William E.
AU - Melius, James M.
AU - Sestito, John P.
N1 - Funding Information: From the Working Croup ori Preventable and Manageable Diseases (D. D. Rutstein, M.D., W. Berenberg, M.D., T. C. Chalmers. M.D., A. P. Fishman, M.D., E. B. Perrin, Ph.D, C. D. Zuidema, M.D.); the Department of Preventive Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School; and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This project was supported under NIOSH Purchase Order No. 80-3612.
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - A Sentinel Health Event (SHE) is a preventable disease, disability, or untimely death whose occurrence serves as a warning signal that the quality of preventive and/or therapeutic medical care may need to be improved. A SHE (Occupational) is a disease, disability, or untimely death which is occupationally related and whose occurrence may: 1) provide the impetus for epidemiologic or industrial hygiene studies; or 2) serve as a warning signal that materials substitution, engineering control, personal protection, or medical care may be required. The present SHE(O) list encompasses 50 disease conditions that are linked to the workplace. Only those conditions are included for which objective documentation of an associated agent, industry, and occupation exists in the scientific literature. The list will serve as a framework for developing a national system for occupational health surveillance that may be applied at the state and local level, and as a guide for practicing physicians caring for patients with occupational illnesses. We expect to update the list periodically to accommodate new occupational disease events which meet the criteria for inclusion. (Am J Public Health 1983; 73: 1054–1062).
AB - A Sentinel Health Event (SHE) is a preventable disease, disability, or untimely death whose occurrence serves as a warning signal that the quality of preventive and/or therapeutic medical care may need to be improved. A SHE (Occupational) is a disease, disability, or untimely death which is occupationally related and whose occurrence may: 1) provide the impetus for epidemiologic or industrial hygiene studies; or 2) serve as a warning signal that materials substitution, engineering control, personal protection, or medical care may be required. The present SHE(O) list encompasses 50 disease conditions that are linked to the workplace. Only those conditions are included for which objective documentation of an associated agent, industry, and occupation exists in the scientific literature. The list will serve as a framework for developing a national system for occupational health surveillance that may be applied at the state and local level, and as a guide for practicing physicians caring for patients with occupational illnesses. We expect to update the list periodically to accommodate new occupational disease events which meet the criteria for inclusion. (Am J Public Health 1983; 73: 1054–1062).
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U2 - 10.1080/00039896.1984.9939518
DO - 10.1080/00039896.1984.9939518
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-9896
VL - 39
SP - 159
EP - 168
JO - Archives of Environmental Health
JF - Archives of Environmental Health
IS - 3
ER -