Rosenbaum P F, Vena J E, Zielezny M A, Michalek A
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Am J Ind Med. 1993 Oct;24(4):499-505. doi: 10.1002/ajim.4700240413.
The association between occupational factors and male breast cancer was investigated in a population-based case-control study conducted in Western New York state. Since 9% of cases and controls were missing occupational information in the tumor registry (usual occupation) and screening clinic (type of work done) files, supplemental occupational data were collected from commercial city directories. Occupational data were located for 69% of participants via the city directory thereby reducing the missing occupational data to 3%. For individuals with occupational listings in both the original source document and the city directories, similar titles were found for 94% of cases. Factors to be considered in assessing the feasibility of directory usage include purpose of study, degree of directory coverage within the geographic area, gender of participants, and availability of personnel and resources. City directories are a valuable supplemental source of occupational data for hypothesis generating case-control studies or registry-based studies of men conducted in urban areas.
在纽约州西部开展的一项基于人群的病例对照研究中，对职业因素与男性乳腺癌之间的关联进行了调查。由于肿瘤登记处（通常职业）和筛查诊所（所从事工作类型）档案中有9%的病例和对照缺失职业信息，因此从商业城市名录中收集了补充职业数据。通过城市名录找到了69%参与者的职业数据，从而将缺失的职业数据减少到3%。对于在原始源文件和城市名录中都有职业记录的个体，94%的病例的职业头衔相似。评估使用名录可行性时需要考虑的因素包括研究目的、地理区域内名录覆盖程度、参与者性别以及人员和资源的可用性。城市名录是在城市地区开展的用于生成假设的病例对照研究或基于登记处的男性研究中职业数据的宝贵补充来源。
