JEMs and incompatible occupational coding systems: Effect of manual and automatic recoding of job codes on exposure assignment

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-114

  Koeman, Tom ^a   Offermans, Nadine S M ^b   Christopher De Vries, Yvette ^a   Slottje, Pauline ^a   Van Den Brandt, Piet A ^b   Goldbohm, R Alexandra ^c   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Vermeulen, Roel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Exposure assessment methodology; Exposure estimation; Job exposure matrix; Retrospective exposure assessment

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC SOLVENT; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CODING SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY; EXPOSURE ESTIMATION; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; JOB DESCRIPTION; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL CODING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVERSAMPLE; RECODING; SAMPLING STRATEGIES;

CHROMIUM; CROSSWALKS; EMPLOYMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SILICA; SURVEYS;

ESTIMATION;

ASBESTOS; CHROMIUM; PESTICIDE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CODING; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

AGED; ASBESTOS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHROMIUM; CLINICAL CODING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84872705713     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mes046     Document Type: Article

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