Screening questionnaires for bakers' asthma—are they worth the effort?
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Screening questionnaires for bakers' asthma--are they worth the effort?
The use of a respiratory screening questionnaire is recommended annually to screen bakery workers in the UK. We compared questionnaire screening with other methods of detecting workers with asthmatic symptoms and then assessed the significance of these symptoms with careful investigation and follow-up. Reasons for questionnaire failures were then explored. A questionnaire was issued to 362 flou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/47.6.361