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 …

The most daunting problem in community‐based studies of occupational cancer is
retrospective exposure assessment. To avoid the error involved in using job title as the …

Studies of the adverse effects of occupational exposures are most informative when jobs can
be classified according to the specific chemical or physical agents involved. However …

In most occupational case-control studies, assessment of exposures is based on occupation
and industry due to the lack of any other exposure information. The traditional approach to …

In a large population-based case-control study designed to generate hypotheses regarding
possible associations between cancer sites and occupational exposures, an innovative …

Random error (misclassification) in exposure measurements usually biases a relative risk,
regression coefficient, or other effect measure towards the null value (no association). The …

There is no evidence concerning human carcinogenic potential of most substances to which
workers are exposed. A case‐control type method has been developed to discover heretofor …

Quantitative estimation of exposure for occupational epidemiology studies has received
increasing attention in recent years and, as a result, a body of methodological literature has …

The strength and credibility of evidence from occupational case‐control studies largely
depend on the validity and precision with which the work history is reported and the …

While self-response to a checklist of substances may be a convenient and inexpensive
method for obtaining information on occupational exposure, the validity of such information …