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Disability Examination Worksheets

Intestines (Large and Small) Examination

Intestines (Large and Small)


Name: SSN:
Date of Exam: C-number:
Place of Exam:


A. Review of Medical Records:

B. Medical History (Subjective Complaints):
Comment on:
  1. Weight gain or loss.
  2. Nausea and/or vomiting.
  3. Constipation, diarrhea (frequency, severity, duration, and episodic or not?).
  4. For fistula - frequency, duration, and amount of fecal discharge.
  5. Treatment - type, duration, response, side effects.
  6. Abdominal pain, distress, cramps - frequency, duration, location.
  7. For ulcerative colitis - number of attacks per year.
  8. Effects of condition on occupational functioning and activities of daily living.
  9. History of trauma.
  10. History of hospitalizations or surgery - reason or type of surgery, location and dates, if known.
  11. History of neoplasm:
  1. Date of diagnosis, diagnosis.
  2. Benign or malignant.
  3. Treatment, dates and response.
  4. Last date of treatment.
C. Physical Examination (Objective Findings):
Address each of the following and fully describe current findings:
  1. Malnutrition, other evidence of debility.
  2. Abdominal pain - location.
  3. For fistula - location, presence of discharge.
  4. Ostomy present- type.
  5. Abdominal mass.
  6. Signs of anemia.
  7. Weight - gain or loss.
D. Diagnostic and Clinical Tests:
1. If signs of anemia, obtain hemoglobin/hematocrit.
2. Include results of all diagnostic and clinical tests conducted in the examination report.
E. Diagnosis:

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