# ANAMT technical guideline: occupational telediagnosis

## TL;DR

This study found no evidence supporting the use of telemedicine for occupational health exams compared to in-person exams.

## Contribution

The paper highlights the lack of evidence for telediagnosis in occupational medicine.

## Key findings

- No studies met the eligibility criteria for comparing telediagnosis with in-person occupational exams.
- Current evidence does not support the use of telemedicine for occupational medical examinations.

## Abstract

The relationships between work and health/illness are the main task of the
occupational physician, with the occupational medical examination being used to
address these relationships, together with a workplace study and epidemiological
analyses. This study had as a guiding clinical question: Is telemedicine
occupational examination (telediagnosis) accurate compared with in-person
occupational examination? The studies were selected by four independent
reviewers, meeting the eligibility criteria. The searches resulted in 12,654,
29, 3, and 0 articles retrieved from MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar
databases and hand search, respectively. Of this total, 284 studies were
selected by title and abstract screening, none of which met the previously
established eligibility criteria for study inclusion (references excluded).
There is currently no evidence comparing regular or standard (in-person)
occupational examination vs telemedicine occupational examination. Therefore,
there is no supporting evidence to recommend the use of occupational
telediagnosis (occupational examination).