TY - JOUR T1 - Standards of care for occupational asthma: an update JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 278 LP - 280 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200755 VL - 67 IS - 3 AU - David Fishwick AU - Christopher Michael Barber AU - Lisa M Bradshaw AU - Jon G Ayres AU - Richard Barraclough AU - Sherwood Burge AU - Jonathan M Corne AU - Paul Cullinan AU - Timothy Laszlo Frank AU - David Hendrick AU - Jennifer Hoyle AU - Andrew D Curran AU - Robert Niven AU - Tony Pickering AU - Peter Reid AU - Alastair Robertson AU - Chris Stenton AU - Christopher J Warburton AU - Paul J Nicholson Y1 - 2012/03/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/67/3/278.abstract N2 - Background The British Thoracic Society (BTS) Standards of Care (SoC) Committee produced a standard of care for occupational asthma (OA) in 2008, based on a systematic evidence review performed in 2004 by the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF).Methods BOHRF updated the evidence base from 2004–2009 in 2010.Results This article summarises the changes in evidence and is aimed at physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care, occupational health and public health and at employers, workers and their health, safety and other representatives.Conclusions Various recommendations and evidence ratings have changed in the management of asthma that may have an occupational cause. ER -