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demonstration centers with other regional centers being
added as the usefulness of the program is recognized
and as funds allow. The subcommittee has not made any
cost projections for the phased implementation of the total
national O-E medical information system proposer' in this
report.
CONCLUSIONS
The objective of this report is to enhance physicians'
care of patients with occupational and environmental
health problems. The information system proposed
should enhance medical care in occupational and
environmental medicine. The focus has been on the
physician who initially sees a patient, who must be alert to
a potential occupational or environmental cause for the
patient's complaints or disease, and who must then call
on the resources of the complex health care information
system for an accurate diagnosis and appropriate therapy.
The committee's efforts are dedicated to easing
physicians' tasks in this difficult arena. Problems arise
because precise incidence and prevalence data for O-E
diseases are sparse or not available, and because much
of the available data are inadequate or debatable. The
proposed system will help alleviate these deficits. This
report concludes that illness, injury, and death potentially
or actually attributable to hazardous occupational or
environmental exposures wit! become more readily
recognized, more accurately diagnosed and treated, and
thus, accurately reported as a result of having a nationally
coordinated network of regional information centers
available to and used by physicians.
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