Authors’ response
- North West Lung Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester M23 9LT, UK
- Dr Helen Francis, North West Lung Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester M23 9LT, UK; helen.c.francis{at}manchester.ac.uk
We thank Dr Preece for his comments. We believe that he is justified in questioning the make-up of the panel and that this has a significant bias for tertiary assessment of occupational lung disease. However, our aim in performing this process was to get this group of experts to agree on “definitions” with a view to unifying the label at this later clinical stage of the process.1 In addition, we hoped that the requirements of a specialist occupational lung disease assessment service would form a basis for developing a “standards of care” document for …
