Email updates   Open Access Research article  Workers'
compensation claims related to natural rubber latex gloves among
Oregon healthcare employees from 1987–1998  Irwin B Horwitz1*,
John Kammeyer-Mueller2 and Brian P McCall1  Author Affiliations
1 Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, USA  2 Department of Management, University of
Florida, Gainesville, USA  For all author emails, please log on.
BMC Public Health 2002, 2:21  doi:10.1186/1471-2458-2-21
Received:17 June 2002 Accepted:18 September 2002 Published:18
September 2002     Occupational reaction to natural rubber latex
(NRL) glove use by healthcare employees has been an area of
increasing concern. Unfortunately, there is little data
demonstrating the prevalence and severity of actual reactivity
to NRL.   Occupational reaction to NRL was estimated using
workers' compensation claims filed by healthcare employees in
Oregon for the period of 1987–1998. For the first ten years,
these claims were estimated by source and condi