RELATION OF TRAUMA TO DISEASE—Aspects of Correlation in Cases Involving Compensation

摘要

In cases of disease possibly etiologically related to industrial trauma and therefore raising questions of compensation, attention should be given at the very outset to factors that might help supply the answers to these questions.In such circumstances it is helpful if the first physician to examine the patient after the onset of disease attempts to:1. Determine whether the disease has been accelerated by injury or is proceeding at the usua, rate;2. Establish the stage of the disease;3. Estimate the time of onset;4. Make differential diagnosis (in many cases) between diseases of idiopathic origin and unaffected by trauma and diseases directly due to trauma.