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The authors analyze the results of the clinical assessment of patients suffering from suspected work-related muscular-skeletal disorders (WMSDs), observed during the course of 2008 in the Department of Occupational Medicine of the Ospedali Riuniti hospital in Bergamo. The aim was to analyse the appropriateness of the requests of clinical consultation, comparing the cases sent by general practitioners and by occupational physicians. ⋯ The results demonstrated that the appropriateness requests for clinical consultation was identical for general practitioners and occupational physicians. All physicians showed a high degree of attention for the upper limb disorders, which is a topical subject of great epidemiological interest. General practitioners and occupational physicians need to take more advantage of the diagnostic support and clinical evaluations offered by Occupational Medicine Departments and Universities for WMSDs.