Howe G R, Lindsay J P
J Natl Cancer Inst. 1983 Jan;70(1):37-44.
A system is described for monitoring the mortality experience of an approximately 10% sample of the Canadian Labor Force with the use of computerized record linkage to the Canadian mortality data base. Results are presented for the 4,203 cancer deaths that occurred between 1965 and 1973 in 415,201 males with known occupational histories from 1965 to 1969. A number of previously suggested associations between certain occupations and cancers have been confirmed in these results, and a number of new associations also have been observed. The system provides a powerful tool for both generating and testing hypotheses, and this power will increase as further mortality experience is accumulated by the cohort.
本文描述了一个系统，该系统通过计算机化记录与加拿大死亡率数据库相连接，用于监测约10%的加拿大劳动力样本的死亡情况。文中给出了1965年至1973年间415201名在1965年至1969年有已知职业史的男性中发生的4203例癌症死亡的结果。某些职业与癌症之间一些先前提出的关联在这些结果中得到了证实，同时也观察到了一些新的关联。该系统为生成和检验假设提供了一个强大的工具，并且随着该队列积累更多的死亡情况，这种能力将会增强。
