Feasibility of a Provincial Voluntary Reporting System for Work-Related Asthma in Ontario

Teresa To; Susan M Tarlo; Susan McLimont; Ted Haines; D Linn Holness; M Diane Lougheed; Gary M Liss; Lisa Cicutto

doi:10.1155/2011/541680

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2011)

Feasibility of a Provincial Voluntary Reporting System for Work-Related Asthma in Ontario

Teresa To,
Susan M Tarlo,
Susan McLimont,
Ted Haines,
D Linn Holness,
M Diane Lougheed,
Gary M Liss,
Lisa Cicutto

Affiliations

Teresa To: The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada
Susan M Tarlo: Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Canada
Susan McLimont: The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Ted Haines: McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
D Linn Holness: St Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
M Diane Lougheed: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Gary M Liss: Ontario Ministry of Labour and University of Toronto, Canada
Lisa Cicutto: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/541680
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 18, no. 5
pp. 275 – 277

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE The Ontario Work-Related Asthma Surveillance System: Physician Reporting (OWRAS) Network was established in 2007 to estimate the prevalence of work-related asthma (WRA) in Ontario, and to test the feasibility of collecting data for cases of WRA from physicians voluntarily.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
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