Preemployment Physical Examinations

Are yearly physical examinations in adolescents necessary?

BACKGROUND Recommendations regarding the frequency of routine physical examinations for adolescents have varied from one examination every 2 to 3 years to yearly evaluations. Because none of these recommendations was based on studies regarding the usefulness of such examinations, it was pertinent to review the results of published studies. METHODS All series of routine school and preathletic ...

Strategies for negotiating preemployment agreements.

Student preemployment agreements are an emerging form of employee-sponsored financial support for students. Forms of financial support for students include the preemployment agreement, sign-on bonus, employment bonus, scholarship, loan, stipend, and grant. Various professional, legal, and ethical issues are involved in the student-employer negotiation of the preemployment agreements. Students m...

Costs and benefits of preemployment drug screening.

OBJECTIVE This study provides a cost-benefit analysis of preemployment drug screening and evaluates the sensitivity of this analysis to variation in its underlying assumptions. DESIGN Cost-benefit analysis, based on a cohort analytic study previously reported. SETTING Employees of the US Postal Service in Boston, Mass. PARTICIPANTS Estimates of costs and benefit are based on a cohort of 2...

GINA and preemployment criminal background checks.

Preemployment evaluations: dilemmas for the family physician.

Preemployment evaluations present primary care physicians with numerous medical, ethical, and legal dilemmas. These examinations are especially problematic for community-based primary care providers unaccustomed to standards used by physicians in occupational settings. In response to a mailed questionnaire, 255 family physicians and general practitioners described their current methods of perfo...