Surveillance of Australian workplace Based Respiratory Events (SABRE): Notifications for the first 3.5 years and validation of occupational asthma cases

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 395-399

  Elder, David ^a   Abramson, Michael ^a   Fish, David ^a   Johnson, Anthony ^b   McKenzie, Dean ^a   Sim, Malcolm ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Workers' Compensation (Dust Diseases) Board Education and Research Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Occupational respiratory disease; Surveillance; Validation

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WOOD DUST; WORKPLACE;

ASBESTOS; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; WOOD;

EID: 4644291604     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqh050     Document Type: Article

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