Interpreting screening questionnaires: Specific respiratory symptoms and their relationship to objective test results

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1225-1229

  Petsonk, Edward L ^a   Wang, Mei Lin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HAY FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 78650977848     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181fd728f     Document Type: Article

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