School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Data Scientists Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Int J Epidemiol. 2020 Apr 1;49(2):376-379. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa022.
Most epidemiological studies of disease aetiology do not consider potential risk factors at work. This may be because work is a complex exposure: people usually have a series of different jobs over their working lifetime; within each job there may be a range of different tasks; and there may be a variety of exposures in each job. Because of this complexity, many epidemiologists do not have the expertise or training to assess occupational exposures accurately. Our web-based application, OccIDEAS, manages the process of occupational agent assessment in epidemiological studies. The epidemiologist chooses the agents of interest for the study and OccIDEAS provides an online set of questionnaires that are tailored to those agents. The participant is asked specific questions about their job and evidence-based algorithms provide an assessment of exposure to each agent. OccIDEAS puts the world's best occupational epidemiological expertise within reach of any researcher.
大多数疾病病因学的流行病学研究都没有考虑工作场所的潜在风险因素。这可能是因为工作是一种复杂的暴露：人们在其整个职业生涯中通常有一系列不同的工作；在每项工作中，可能有一系列不同的任务；在每项工作中，可能有多种暴露。由于这种复杂性，许多流行病学家没有专业知识或培训来准确评估职业暴露。我们的基于网络的应用程序 OccIDEAS 管理流行病学研究中的职业评估过程。流行病学家为研究选择感兴趣的试剂，OccIDEAS 为这些试剂提供一套在线问卷。参与者被问及他们工作的具体问题，基于证据的算法为每个试剂的暴露情况提供评估。OccIDEAS 使世界上最好的职业流行病学专业知识能够为任何研究人员所掌握。
