Prevention of Work-related Asthma: Study Search Results

Study Details

Prevention Level	Primary
Author	Allmers
Study Year	2002
Country	Germany
Molecular Weight of Agent	HMW
Category	Plants
Agent	Latex
Occupation	Health care workers in acute health care settings
Outcome/Diagnosis	Occupational asthma
Activity Intervention	Policy recommendation via scientific publication of proposed guidelines (1995), governmental and semi-governmental sponsored education (1997-1998), regulation stating use of only low-allergen, powder-free NRL gloves (1997)
Participation Rate	Researchers evaluated histories of 70 health care workers who received workers' compensation for OA caused by NRL.
Intervention Effectiveness	With a lag time of 2 years, there was a correlation between decline in purchase of powdered NRL gloves and decline in suspected NRL OA cases (p<0.01).