title: Standards of care for occupational asthma: an update.
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.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Workplace Health, Respiratory Function Unit, A Floor, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK. d.fishwick@sheffield.ac.uk
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mesh_terms: D059366:Asthma, Occupational / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001985:Bronchial Provocation Tests / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000592:standards*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000379:methods