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Chest clinic
Guidelines update
Standards of care for occupational asthma: an update
  1. David Fishwick1,
  2. Christopher Michael Barber1,
  3. Lisa M Bradshaw1,
  4. Jon G Ayres2,
  5. Richard Barraclough3,
  6. Sherwood Burge4,
  7. Jonathan M Corne5,
  8. Paul Cullinan6,
  9. Timothy Laszlo Frank7,
  10. David Hendrick8,
  11. Jennifer Hoyle9,
  12. Andrew D Curran10,
  13. Robert Niven3,
  14. Tony Pickering3,
  15. Peter Reid11,
  16. Alastair Robertson4,
  17. Chris Stenton8,
  18. Christopher J Warburton12,
  19. Paul J Nicholson13
  1. 1Centre for Workplace Health, Sheffield, UK
  2. 2University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  3. 3North West Lung Centre, Manchester, UK
  4. 4Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
  5. 5Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
  6. 6Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
  7. 7General Practice Research Unit, Manchester, UK
  8. 8Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  9. 9North Manchester General Hospital, UK
  10. 10Centre for Workplace Health, Buxton, UK
  11. 11Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
  12. 12Aintree Chest Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK
  13. 13British Occupational Health Research Foundation, Society of Occupational Medicine and Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor D Fishwick, Centre for Workplace Health, Respiratory Function Unit, A Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK; d.fishwick{at}sheffield.ac.uk

Abstract

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.

  • Asthma
  • occupation
  • rhinitis
  • allergy
  • workplace
  • allergic lung disease
  • asbestos-induced lung disease
  • asthma epidemiology
  • asthma guidelines
  • clinical epidemiology
  • COPD epidemiology
  • occupational lung disease
  • allergic alveolitis
  • cough/mechanisms/pharmacology
  • exhaled airway markers
  • aspergillus lung disease
  • COPD exacerbations
  • COPD pharmacology
  • emphysema
  • mesothelioma
  • paediatric asthma
  • allergic alveolitis
  • bronchoscopy
  • pleural disease
  • interstitial fibrosis
  • lung cancer
  • lung physiology
  • non-small cell lung cancer
  • perception of asthma/breathlessness
  • respiratory measurement

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200755

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.