Work related respiratory symptoms in radiographers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 450-454

  Smedley, Julia ^a   Inskip, Hazel ^a   Wield, Graham ^a   Coggon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asthma; occupational disease; radiographers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WHEEZING; X RAY FILM;

EID: 0029680941     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.7.450     Document Type: Article

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