COPD and the workplace. Is it really possible to detect early cases?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 82-84

  Fishwick, David ^a   Naylor, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MANPOWER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY; WORKPLACE;

FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; VITAL CAPACITY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33847688378     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql138     Document Type: Editorial

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