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ROEL VALDES, José María  e  MAQUEDA BLASCO, Jerónimo. Testing a procedure to investigate occupational related diseases. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2013, vol.59, n.231, pp.227-234. ISSN 1989-7790.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0465-546X2013000200004.

Data from the National Survey of Safety and Health Management at Companies evidence gaps the investigation of cases of occupational diseases. In this context this project aims to developed and test an investigation procedure of occupational diseases, in order to guide, harmonize and systematize the collection of information in the course of the investigation of this cases. In the first phase a group of researchers from the Safety al Occupational Health of Valencia the National School of Occupational Medicine developed a procedure for investigate cases of occupational diseases that was submitted to a consensus workshop with a group of experts from various key agents: Employees Organizations, Prevention Services, Mutuas, Labour Inspectorate, Technical Institutes from the Autonomous Communities, Societies of Occupational Medicine, Public Research Institutes and University. The resulting procedure was tested on 21 incident cases of occupational diseases, we evaluated a total of 26 indicators in three dimensions: needs, relevance and overall opinion, as measured by a Likert scale, assessing the degree of agreement between applicators by the standardization procedure of the AGREE evaluation method. The results show on 19 indicators a level of consensus upper than 80% and for others 10 indicators a level of consensus upper than 90%, there being no dissent in any of the indicators analyzed. These results leading to the conclusion that the tested procedure covers the information needs in the investigation of cases of occupational diseases.

Palavras-chave : Occupational diseases; investigation; procedure.

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