Progress in educational program for diagnosis of occupational respiratory disease in Japan ‐Activity of Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconioses (AIR Pneumo)‐

Nogami et al investigated the diagnostic performance of digital radiography evaluated by Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconioses (AIR Pneumo) readers using thin-section computed tomography (CT) as the gold standard, which showed considerably good specificity for detecting both parenchymal and pleural abnormalities of occupational lung disease.1 Pneumoconiosis, occupational exposure of mineral dust induced irreversible lung disorder, is...