Publicatie van de Week: "Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence" van Wang et al. (2011)

Publicatie van de Week is van Wang X-S en collega's: "Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence".

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Publicatie van de Week: "When Work is Related to Disease, What establishes Evidence for a Causal Relation" van J. Verbeek (2012)

Nogmaals een artikel van de hand van de auteur Jos Verbeek. Dit maal een recente publicatie gepubliceerd in Safety and Health @ Work (Saf Health Work 2012; 3: 110-6)
Establishing a work-related cause of a disease is one of the most challenging aspects of occupational medicine.
An occupational disease is any disease that results from exposure at work.
There are 3 important elements in this definition that call for evidence: disease, exposure, and the relationship between these 2.
Conclusion:
For the disease, consensus on symptoms, signs and other tests is needed.
For the exposure, evidence is needed that the used measures correspond well to objective exposure assessment.
There are no absolute criteria for evidence of causality in observational epidemiological studies.

2 Cases are presented: 

1.  Shift work and breast cancer
2. Aerotoxic syndrome 

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Publicatie van de Week: "The application of the methods of evidence-based practice to occupational health" (2000) van T. Carter

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Bronnen van evidentie

1. MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine, USA) 
2. EMBASE (meer aandacht voor niet-Engelstalige, Europese publicaties)  
3. Cochrane Reviews (databases met index reviews)
4. World Wide Web
5. "Grey Literature" (congresnota’s, theses, officiële rapporten,...)
6. Tekstboeken 
7. Medische (Universitaire) bibliotheek

Evidence-based products 

1. Critical appraisal (kwaliteit nagaan van een publicatie op een gestructureerde wijze)
2. Systematic review (review met inclusie/exclusie criteria)
3. Meta-analysis
4. Clinical guideline / Good practice recommendation (gebaseerd op systematische reviews en meta-analyses)
5. Economic analysis

Publicatie van de Week: "Evidence-based management: from theory to practice in health care" (2001) van K. Walshe & T.G. Rundall

 

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