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Document ID (ISN)60463
CIS number 93-1213
ISSN - Serial title 0885-114X - Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews
Year 1992
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Enright P.L.
Title Surveillance for lung disease - Quality assurance using computers and a team approach
Bibliographic information Apr.-June 1992, Vol.7, No.2, p.209-225. Illus. 23 ref.
Abstract An occupational pulmonary surveillance programme will detect the lung diseases that affect about 20% of the general population: asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, restrictive respiratory disorders, and lung cancer. Annual spirometry testing and standardised respiratory questionnaires are useful components of all programmes, but because many problems with spirometry testing and interpretation occur, a team approach is recommended. A description is given of a team approach to pulmonary surveillance involving the following individuals: the corporate medical director; the corporate medical surveillance coordinator; the medical director of a large pulmonary function (PF) laboratory; a computer system analyst with PF experience; plant nurses with spirometry experience.
Descriptors (primary) health programmes; lung diseases; computer applications; medical supervision; plant health services
Descriptors (secondary) literature survey; maximal expiratory flow; ventilatory capacity; spirometry; programme evaluation; respiratory function tests; one-second forced expiratory volume
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceUSA
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Occupational health services
Workplace health promotion