Tuberk Toraks 2019;67(4):285-291 Çımrın A, Demiral Y, Alıcı NŞ, Coşkun Beyan A. 285 Three-year’ experience of a tertiary level occupational diseases clinic doi • 10.5578/tt.68897 Tuberk Toraks 2019;67(4):285-291 Geliş Tarihi/Received: 22.11.2018 • Kabul Ediliş Tarihi/Accepted: 29.12.2019 KLİNİK ÇALIŞMA RESEARCH ARTICLE Arif ÇIMRIN 1 (ID) Yücel DEMİRAL 2 (ID) Nur Şafak ALICI 3 (ID) Ayşe COŞKUN BEYAN 4 (ID) 1 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 1 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 2 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye 3 Clinic of Occupational Diseases, Izmir Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey 3 İzmir Dr. Suat Seren Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Meslek Hastalıkları Kliniği, İzmir, Türkiye 4 Department of Occupational Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 4 Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Meslek Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye ABSTRACT Three-year’ experience of a tertiary level occupational diseases clinic Introduction: We aimed to evaluate the diagnosis of patients who applied on the first three years of our clinic, in order to contribute to the state of occupational diseases (OD) in Turkey. Materials and Methods: The study is a cross-sectional study, between November 2013 and December 2016, 862 subjects were accepted for the evaluation. Gender, age, application ways, the reason of referral, workplace, exposure time and possible risks for the patients were evaluated through a file examination. Results: Total of 708 (82.1%) was male and 154 (17.9%) were female. The mean age of the subjects was 38.3 ± 7.7 years; the mean term of employment was 126.6 ± 87.3 (1-420) months. The most common cause of referral was the suspicion of occupational pulmonary diseases (64.3%) with 554 workers. 435 workers (50,6%) were diagnosed to have an OD, 78 workers (9.0%) were diagnosed with work-related diseases. The most common diagnoses of OD; 169 (38.9%) pneumoconiosis, 71 (16.3%) occupational asthma, 38 (8.7%) cervical disc hernia, 24 (5.5%) lumbar disc hernia, 24 (5.5%) hearing loss, 19 (4.3%) cubital/carpal tunnel, and 15 (3.4%) workers have lead intoxication. Dr. Nur Şafak ALICI İzmir Dr. Suat Seren Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Meslek Hastalıkları Kliniği, İZMİR - TÜRKİYE e-mail: safak.alici@hotmail.com Yazışma Adresi (Address for Correspondence) Cite this arcticle as: Çımrın A, Demiral Y, Alıcı NŞ, Coşkun Beyan A. Three-year’ experience of a ter- tiary level occupational diseases clinic. Tuberk Toraks 2019;67(4):285-91. ©Copyright 2019 by Tuberculosis and Thorax. Available on-line at www.tuberktoraks.org.com