Twenty years of SHIELD: Decreasing incidence of occupational asthma In the West Midlands, UK?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 304-310

  Walters, G I ^a   Kirkham, A ^b   McGrath, E E ^a   Moore, V C ^a   Robertson, A S ^a   Burge, P S ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY;

ADULT; ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84924939841     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102141     Document Type: Article

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