Defining occupational asthma and confirming the diagnosis: What do experts suggest?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 359-360

  Malo, Jean Luc ^a   Taylor, Anthony Newman ^b,c  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; WORKPLACE;

ASTHMA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; SPUTUM;

EID: 34249869530     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.030064     Document Type: Editorial

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