Case Management:

This is the careful monitoring of affected employees, to ensure they are not lost to follow-up, and that they are ultimately managed in such a manner as to reduce or eliminate risks to their health, or to the health and safety of others. Ideally, this process means a return to optimal function. This may entail medical treatment and rehabilitation, or even a transfer to a more suitable occupation.

The Synergee Coding System provides one example of a  mechanism for tracking  employees with work-related conditions, by means of codes that indicate the extent to which the employee is still under evaluation.

Remember: Screening vs. Surveillance:

Screening refers to testing individuals for various health abnormalities, whereas surveillance refers to a group of people tested in similar ways.

Whichever system is used for tracking individual records, it is critically important that individual records are available and that serial information on individuals can be readily abstracted from records data systems for group analysis or surveillance purposes. This constitutes the important link between individual clinical screening activity and the understanding of group surveillance trends and changes in relation to occupational and other risk factors over time.