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Admission forms for patients with asthma should incude occupation and work-relationship

Admission forms for patients with asthma should incude occupation and work-relationship
A patient's occupation seems far from the minds of physicians and nurses seeing patients with acute asthma in emergency and hospital admission services, despite the significance of occupation as a cause of the asthma in 15-20% and the consequences of having poorly controlled asthma in all those in employment. A survey of acute asthma in patients 16-64 years old showed that occupation was recorded in 10-14% when there was no prompt on the admission proformas, increasing to 63% when there was a specific item on the proforma. despite this there were no records of work-relationship in any of the 200 studied.

References

Abstract Available for Missed opportunities to identify occupational asthma in acute secondary care Ellis PR, Walters GI, Missed opportunities to identify occupational asthma in acute secondary care , Occup Med, 2018;68:56-59,https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqx167
Gareth Walters, Heartlands, an author of 'Missed opportunities to identify occupational asthma in acute secondary care'

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