Screening questionnaires for bakers' asthma - are they worth the effort?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 361-366

  Gordon, S B ^a,b   Curran, A D ^b   Murphy, J ^c   Sillitoe, C ^a   Lee, G ^a   Wiley, K ^b   Morice, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Occupational Health Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baker; Occupational asthma; Respiratory symptoms; Screening

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SPIROMETRY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FLOUR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0030820949     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/47.6.361     Document Type: Article

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