The Primary Care Practitioner and the diagnosis of occupational diseases
Open Access
- 9 July 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 10 (1) , 405
Abstract
Rather than a clinical diagnosis, in occupational medicine the critical point is the etiological diagnosis. The first is useful for the therapy, the latter for preventive, epidemiological, regulatory, and insurance measures.Keywords
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