Validation of expert assessment of occupational exposures

L Fritschi, L Nadon, G Benke, R Lakhani… - American journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Background Assessment by experts may be the best method available for retrospective
occupational exposure measurement in community‐based studies. This study was …

Paternal exposure to pesticides and congenital malformations

AM García, FG Benavides, T Fletcher, E Orts - Scandinavian journal of work …, 1998 - JSTOR
Objectives A case-referent study with 261 matched pairs was carried out in 8 hospitals of
Comunidad Valenciana, Spain, to assess the relation between occupational exposure to …

Associations between several sites of cancer and ten types of exhaust and combustion products: results from a case-referent study in Montreal

J Siemiatycki, M Gérin, P Stewart, L Nadon… - Scandinavian journal of …, 1988 - JSTOR
A population-based case-referent study provided information on the associations between
several types of cancer and 10 types of exhaust and combustion products. All site-exposure …

Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma associated with occupational exposure to solvents, metals, organic dusts and PCBs (Australia)

L Fritschi, G Benke, AM Hughes, A Kricker… - Cancer Causes & …, 2005 - Springer
Objective Several studies have suggested that there is an occupational component to the
causation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). We aimed to use accurate means to assess …

OccIDEAS: Retrospective occupational exposure assessment in community‐based studies made easier

L Fritschi, MC Friesen, D Glass, G Benke… - … of environmental and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing occupational exposure in retrospective community‐based case‐control studies is
difficult as measured exposure data are very seldom available. The expert assessment …

Retrospective assessment of occupational exposure to chemicals in community-based studies: validity and repeatability of industrial hygiene panel ratings.

G Benke, M Sim, A Forbes… - International Journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: Occupational hygiene panels are increasingly being used to rate
retrospective occupational exposures to chemicals in community-based studies. This study …

Development of and selected performance characteristics of CANJEM, a general population job-exposure matrix based on past expert assessments of exposure

JF Sauvé, J Siemiatycki, F Labrèche… - Annals of work …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objectives We developed a job-exposure matrix called CANJEM using data generated in
population-based case–control studies of cancer. This article describes some of the …

COSTS AND STATISTICAL POWER ASSOCIATED WITH FIVE METHODS OF COLLECTING OCCUPATION EXPOSURE INFORMATION FOR POPULATION-BASED …

J SIEMIATYCKI, R DEWAR… - American Journal of …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
The ascertainment of information on past occupational exposure of study subjects is
perhaps the main problem in case-control studies of occupational risk factors. Several …

Occupational exposure to N-nitrosamines and pesticides and risk of pancreatic cancer

L Fritschi, G Benke, HA Risch, A Schulte… - Occupational and …, 2015 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives Animal evidence shows that N-nitrosamines and similar xenobiotic compounds
are pancreatic carcinogens. We aimed to determine whether occupational exposure to N …

Inter-rater agreement in assessing occupational exposure in a case-control study.

MS Goldberg, J Siemiatycki, M Gérin - … and Environmental Medicine, 1986 - oem.bmj.com
The identification of occupational carcinogens in the workplace is a major concern of
epidemiologists. A novel case-control approach has been developed which includes as a …