职业性肺病的损伤与残疾评估

Occup Med. 1987 Apr-Jun;2(2):227-41.

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.

在美国，至少有26万名工人患有与工作相关的呼吸道疾病。对于那些希望确定呼吸道疾病是否由患者职业引起或加重的医生来说，在做出诊断之后还会面临病因归属、损伤和残疾等问题，本文将对这些问题进行探讨。