Clinimetric quality of the fire fighting simulation test as part of the Dutch fire fighters Workers' Health Surveillance

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Plat, Marie Christine J ^a   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^a   Sluiter, Judith K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FIRE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WORK CAPACITY;

FIRES; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 77649205670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-32     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Technical and ethical guidelines for workers' health surveillance (OSH No. 72). Geneva, International Labour Office 1998 (Occupational Safety and Health Series No. 72)
2. What do we know about ageing at work? Evidence-based fitness for duty and health in fire fighters. JK Sluiter MH Frings-Dresen, Ergonomics 2007 50 11 1897 1913 10.1080/00140130701676005 17972208
3. Heart rate response of firefighters to actual emergencies. Implications for cardiorespiratory fitness. MS Sothmann K Saupe D Jasenof J Blaney, J Occup Med 1992 34 8 797 800 10.1097/00043764-199208000-00014 1506937
4. Characterization of the physical demands of firefighting. N Gledhill VK Jamnik, Can J Sport Sci 1992 17 3 207 213 1325260
5. Physiological, psychophysical, and psychological responses of firefighters to firefighting training drills. DL Smith SJ Petruzzello JM Kramer JE Misner, Aviat Space Environ Med 1996 67 11 1063 1068 8908345
6. The physical demands upon (Dutch) fire-fighters in relation to the maximum acceptable energetic workload. J Bos E Mol B Visser M Frings-Dresen, Ergonomics 2004 47 4 446 460 10.1080/00140130310001643283 14681000
7. Classification of metabolic and respiratory demands in fire fighting activity with extreme workloads. I Holmér D Gavhed, Applied ergonomics 2007 38 45 52 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.01.004 16516136
8. Are the job demands on physical work capacity equal for young and aging firefighters? S Lusa V Louhevaara K Kinnunen, J occup med 1994 36 1 70 74 8138852
9. Pre-employment and Periodical Workers' Health Surveillance in the Fire fighting sector. JK Sluiter MH Frings-Dresen, In Dutch: Aanstellingskeuring en Periodiek Preventief Medisch Onderzoek (PPMO) voor de Brandweersector Amsterdam: Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Center 2006 report no. 06-03
10. High-demand jobs: Age-related diversity in work ability? JK Sluiter, Applied Ergonomics 2006 37 429 440 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.04.007 16764815
11. Performance requirements of physically strenuous occupations: validating, minimum standards for muscular strength and endurance. MS Sothmann DL Gebhardt TA Baker GM Kastello VA Sheppard, Ergonomics 2004 47 8 864 875 10.1080/00140130410001670372 15204279
12. Trial-to-trial reproducibility and test-retest stability of two dynamic balance tests among male firefighters. A Punakallio, Int J Sports Med 2004 25 3 163 169 10.1055/s-2003-45251 15088238
13. Physiological demands of the firefighter candidate physical ability test. FM Williams-Bell R Villar MT Sharratt RL Hughson, Med Sci Sports Exerc 2009 41 3 653 662 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31818ad117 19204584
14. Occupational fitness standards for beach lifeguards. Phase 2: the development of an easily administered fitness test. T Reilly C Iggleden M Gennser M Tipton, Occup Med 2006 56 1 12 17 10.1093/occmed/kqi168 (Pubitemid 43103361)
15. The development of a bona fide physical maintenance standard for CD and DND fire fighters. JM Deakin R Pelot JT Smith JT Stevenson LA Wolfe, Ergonomics Research Group Queens University Kingston, Ontario 1998
16. Guideline Task Specific Condition testing, for fire fighters Rotterdam. M van Blitterswijk R Lagrand J van der Zijden, [In Dutch: Handboek Taak Specifieke Conditietest voor uitrukdienst-personeel Brandweer Rotterdam]. Rotterdam 2006
17. Current challenges in clinimetrics. HC de Vet CB Terwee LM Bouter, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2003 56 1137 1141 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.08. 012 14680660
18. When to use agreement versus reliability measures. HC de Vet CB Terwee DL Knol LM Bouter, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2006 59 1033 1039 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.10.015 16980142
19. Reliability. DL Streiner GR Norman, Health Measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use Oxford Medical Publications 3 2003 126 152
20. Validity. DL Streiner GR Norman, Health Measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use Oxford Medical Publications 3 2003 172 193
21. Evaluation of diagnostic tests when there is no gold standard: A review of Methods: AW Rutjes JB Reitsma A Coomarasamy KS Khan PM Bossuyt, Health technology assessment 2007 11 50 18021577
22. Revision of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q). S Thomas J Reading RJ Shephard, Can J Sport Sci 1992 17 4 338 345 1330274
23. Work Ability Index. K Tuomi J Ilmarinen A Jahkola L Katajarinne A Tulkki, Helsinki: Finnish Institute of Occupational Health 1997
24. Intraclass Correlations: Uses in Assessing Rater Reliability. PE Shrout JL Fleiss, Psychological Bulletin 1979 86 2 420 428 10.1037/0033-2909.86.2.420 18839484
25. Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires. CB Terwee SD Bot MR de Boer DA van der Windt DL Knol J Dekker LM Bouter HC de Vet, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2007 60 34 42 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.03.012 17161752
26. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. JM Bland DG Altman, Lancet 1986 1 307 310 2868172
27. Validity of work-related assessments. E Innes L Straker, Work 1999 13 125 152 12441557