Clinical investigation of former workers exposed to asbestos: the health surveillance experience of an Italian University Hospital
Luigi De Maria,
Floriana Pentimone,
Domenica Cavone
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundThe need for health surveillance of former workers exposed to asbestos was provided by law in Italy after the asbestos ban in 1992.ObjectivesWe describe the results of the health surveillance of former workers exposed to asbestos, conducted over 27 years, from 1994 to 2020, at the Operative Unit of Occupational Medicine of the University Hospital of Bari.Materials and methodsWe adopted the health surveillance protocol, which was validated at the national level in 2018.ResultsA total of 1,405 former w… Show more
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