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A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung DiseasesThe Occupational and Environmental History

A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases: The Occupational and... [The occupational and environmental history is fundamentally important to making the correct and timely diagnosis of any illness that may have resulted from a toxic exposure in the workplace, the household, or the general environment. In interviewing the patient with a potential occupational or occupational illness, it is important for the physician to ask questions that efficiently lead the patient into providing useful information about possible associations between the presenting illness and potential toxic exposures. A particularly useful and efficient construct for interviewing a patient about his or her occupational and environmental history is contained in the easy-to-remember mnemonic “WHACOS.” The components of the “WHACOS” mnemonic are as follows:] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung DiseasesThe Occupational and Environmental History

Part of the Respiratory Medicine Book Series
Editors: Huang, Yuh-Chin T.; Ghio, Andrew J.; Maier, Lisa A.
Mohr, Lawrence C.
Springer Journals — Sep 19, 2012
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Publisher
Humana Press
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
ISBN
978-1-62703-148-6
Pages
27 –39
DOI
10.1007/978-1-62703-149-3_2
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Abstract

[The occupational and environmental history is fundamentally important to making the correct and timely diagnosis of any illness that may have resulted from a toxic exposure in the workplace, the household, or the general environment. In interviewing the patient with a potential occupational or occupational illness, it is important for the physician to ask questions that efficiently lead the patient into providing useful information about possible associations between the presenting illness and potential toxic exposures. A particularly useful and efficient construct for interviewing a patient about his or her occupational and environmental history is contained in the easy-to-remember mnemonic “WHACOS.” The components of the “WHACOS” mnemonic are as follows:]

Published: Sep 19, 2012

Keywords: Occupation; Environment; Work; Hobbies; Interview; History

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