EDITORIAL

BOHRF guidelines for occupational asthma

BOHRF guidelines for occupational asthma

A J Newman Taylor¹, P Cullinan¹, P S Burge², P Nicholson³, C Boyle⁴

¹ Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, NHLI at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London SW3 6LR, UK
² Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK
³ P&G, Whitehall Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9NW, UK
⁴ Industrial Chemicals Unit, Health and Safety Executive, Magdalen House, Stanley Precinct, Bootle, Merseyside L20 3QZ, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor A J Newman Taylor
Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, NHLI at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Emmanuel Kaye Building, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR, UK; e.haining@rbh.nthames.nhs.uk

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Publication of the first evidence based guidelines for occupational asthma

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Keywords: occupational asthma; guidelines

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New guidelines for the identification, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are published this month in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.¹ The first evidence based guidelines for occupational asthma, they were prepared by a working group that included clinicians, patients, occupational hygienists, and representatives of the Health and Safety Executive. The work was supported by a grant from the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF). The guidelines will be supplemented by an abbreviated version for primary care practitioners, occupational health practitioners, employers, employees, and workplace safety representatives.

These guidelines are intended to increase awareness and improve the management of occupational asthma by all practitioners who encounter such patients, and to stimulate the means to reduce its incidence by those able to effect this.

The important issues in occupational asthma concern its aetiology, diagnosis, outcome and prevention. Questions about these are not readily answered by randomised . . . [Full text of this article]

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