Melissa C Friesen, Qing Lan, Calvin Ge, Sarah J Locke, Dean Hosgood, Lin Fritschi, Troy Sadkowsky, Yu-Cheng Chen, Hu Wei, Jun Xu, Tai Hing Lam, Yok Lam Kwong, Kexin Chen, Caigang Xu, Yu-Chieh Su, Brian C H Chiu, Kai Ming Dennis Ip, Mark P Purdue, Bryan A Bassig, Nat Rothman, Roel Vermeulen
OBJECTIVE: In community-based epidemiological studies, job- and industry-specific 'modules' are often used to systematically obtain details about the subject's work tasks. The module assignment is often made by the interviewer, who may have insufficient occupational hygiene knowledge to assign the correct module. We evaluated, in the context of a case-control study of lymphoid neoplasms in Asia ('AsiaLymph'), the performance of an algorithm that provided automatic, real-time module assignment during a computer-assisted personal interview...
August 2016: Annals of Occupational Hygiene