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Standards of care for occupational asthma
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Dr S M Tarlo, Toronto Western Hospital EW7-449, 399 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada; susan.tarlo@utoronto.ca
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Work-related asthma has been reported to be frequent among adults with asthma.1 2 Most cases (>90%) of occupational asthma (asthma caused by work) are caused by specific sensitisation to a workplace agent3 (rather than irritant-induced occupational asthma), and it is this sensitiser-induced occupational asthma that is addressed in this issue of Thorax in a paper from the British Thoracic Society recommending standards of care for occupational asthma (see page 240).4 It is especially important that occupational asthma is recognised early with appropriate intervention (including removal from further exposure to the causative workplace sensitiser when possible), since early recognition and such management improves the possibility that the asthma will clear or significantly improve.5 6
Identification of occupational asthma in an individual can also serve as a "sentinel event", offering the opportunity to alert workplaces and public health agencies that there may be an increased risk to co-workers in the same workplace
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