title: Evaluation of impairment and disability in occupational lung disease.
abstract: At least 260,000 workers suffer from work-related respiratory diseases in the United States. For physicians who wish to determine whether a respiratory disease is caused or aggravated by a patient's occupation, the diagnosis is followed by questions of attribution, impairment and disability, which are addressed in this article.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barnhart
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*