Applying two general population job exposure matrices to predict incident carpal tunnel syndrome: A cross-national approach to improve estimation of workplace physical exposures

• Main Authors: Marcus Yung (Author), Bradley A Evanoff (Author), Skye Buckner-Petty (Author), Yves Roquelaure (Author), Alexis Descatha (Author), Ann Marie Dale (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH), 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: A job exposure matrix (JEM) is a tool to estimate workers' exposure to occupational physical risk factors. We evaluated the performance of two general population JEM (CONSTANCES and O*NET) to detect known exposure-disease relationships in an American prospective cohort study. We com...