Connecticut Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Unit, Hartford, Connecticut.
Am J Ind Med. 2014 Jun;57(6):653-9. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22311. Epub 2014 Mar 11.
The US employer-based surveillance system for work-related health conditions underestimates the prevalence of work-related dermatitis.
The authors sought to utilize information from workers to improve the accuracy of prevalence estimates for work-related dermatitis.
Three state health departments included questions in the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey designed to ascertain the prevalence of dermatitis in the working population, as well as healthcare experiences, personal perceptions of work-relatedness, and job changes associated with dermatitis.
The percentage of working respondents who reported receiving a clinician's opinion that their dermatitis was work-related was between 3.8% and 10.2%. When patients' perceptions were considered, the work-related dermatitis prevalence estimate increased to between 12.9% and 17.6%.
Including patients' perceptions of work-relatedness produced a larger prevalence estimate for work-related dermatitis than the previously published estimate of 5.6%, which included only those cases of dermatitis attributed to work by healthcare professionals.
美国雇主为基础的工作相关健康状况监测系统低估了工作相关性皮炎的患病率。
作者试图利用工人的信息来提高工作相关性皮炎患病率估计的准确性。
三个州的卫生部门在 2011 年行为风险因素监测系统调查中纳入了一些问题，旨在确定工作人群中皮炎的患病率，以及医疗保健经历、个人对工作相关的看法以及与皮炎相关的工作变动。
报告称收到临床医生关于其皮炎与工作相关的意见的工作受访者比例在 3.8%至 10.2%之间。当考虑到患者的看法时，工作相关性皮炎的患病率估计值增加到 12.9%至 17.6%之间。
包括患者对工作相关的看法，产生了一个比之前发表的 5.6%的患病率估计值更大的工作相关性皮炎的患病率估计值，该估计值仅包括医疗保健专业人员归因于工作的皮炎病例。
