Asthma, Employment Status, and Disability Among Adults Treated by Pulmonary and Allergy Specialists

Objective Identify risk factors for work disability among adults with asthma treated by pulmonary and allergy specialists. Design Cross-sectional survey, including retrospective work history data. Participants Sixty-eight pulmonary and 16 allergy internal medicine subspecialists maintaining a registry of patient visits for asthma; 698 registered patients aged 18 to 50 years, of whom 601 (86%) were studied Measures Computer-assisted,...