Follow Up Survey of Coal Miners

摘要

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has conducted a survey designed to assist the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in evaluating the effectiveness of procedures used to notify underground coal miners and their designated physicians when X-ray examination provided under PL-91-173 reveal the presence of significant nonpneumoconiotic conditions. This document reports the findings of the ACR survey. The specific purposes of the study were: to determine the percentage of 'designated' physicians who actually received referral letters from the Public Health Service; to determine the percentage of miners who received their referral letters; to determine the percentage of miners who saw their physicians as a result of the referral letter; to identify steps to be used to assure receipt of referral letters; to identify the impediments to miners receiving follow-up; to develop recommendations for overcoming roadblocks for adequate referral and future referral procedures.