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Medical surveillance for workplace hepatotoxins
1University of California, San Francisco.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
In contrast to clinical practice, the objective of medical surveillance in a workplace population with potential exposure to hepatotoxins is to detect people with occupation-associated liver dysfunction who either have or are at risk for developing clinical disease. Ideally, medical surveillance tests for hepatotoxicity should have, either alone or in combination, a high positive predictive value.
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