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U.K. standards of care for occupational contact dermatitis and occupational contact urticaria.
Br J Dermatol
June 2013
Centre for Workplace Health, Health & Safety Laboratory, Harpur Hill, Buxton, SK17 9JN, UK.
The diagnosis of occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) and occupational contact urticaria (OCU) is a process that involves fastidious clinical and occupational history taking, clinical examination, patch testing and skin-prick testing. A temporal relationship of work and/or the presence of a rash on the hands only raises suspicion of an occupational cause, and does not necessarily confirm an occupational causation. The identification of allergy by patch or prick tests is a major objective, as exclusion of an offending allergen from the environment can contribute to clinical recovery in the individual worker and avoidance of new cases of disease.
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Eur Respir Rev
June 2012
Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
The aim of the European Respiratory Society work-related asthma guidelines is to present the management and prevention options of work-related asthma and their effectiveness. Work-related asthma accounts for 5-25% of all adult asthma cases and is responsible for a significant socioeconomic burden. Several hundred occupational agents, mainly allergens but also irritants and substances with unknown pathological mechanisms, have been identified as causing work-related asthma.
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Thorax
March 2012
Centre for Workplace Health, Respiratory Function Unit, A Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK.
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.
Concise guidance: diagnosis, management and prevention of occupational contact dermatitis.
Clin Med (Lond)
October 2010
Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, Southampton.
Occupation is an important risk factor for contact dermatitis that presents in adulthood. Occupational contact dermatitis often has significant adverse effects on quality of life and the long-term prognosis is poor unless workplace exposures are addressed. The condition often presents to general practitioners, physicians or dermatologists who will be responsible for facilitating management of the workplace issues in the event that an occupational health service is not accessible.
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