Sentinel surveillance and occupational disease
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Health surveillance for occupational respiratory disease.
BACKGROUND Occupational lung diseases remain common, and health surveillance is one approach used to assist identification of early cases. AIMS To identify areas of good practice within respiratory health surveillance and to formulate recommendations for practice. METHODS Published literature was searched since 1990 using a semi-systematic methodology. RESULTS A total of 561 documents wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqv166