Intelligent Database Generated Occupational Questionnaire System

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• Personal Author:
  Chen W ; Harber P ; Lam I ; Merz B ; Parker, John E. ; Yuan M
• Description:
  Obtaining an adequate occupational history requires special expertise to "ask the right questions" that are relevant to a particular patient's specific health conditions and potential exposures. This article describes a way to systematically accomplish this by means of a computer system that can overcome limited availability of necessary clinical occupational health expertise. The Intelligent Questionnaire system is a computer-based system for generating case-specific questionnaires about the influence of work on, respiratory disease. Intelligent Questionnaire includes three databases: Questions, Responses, and Calls (clues to identify questions). The Questionnaire also arranges questions in a logical manner and provides a customized data entry screen for each subject. This approach provides primary practitioners with expertise on a case-by-case basis. It also facilitates occupational health surveilance because it allows acquiring detailed case-specific information in a systematic fashion. A computer-based system can facilitate obtaining occupational histories with high specificity and consistency without depending on general availability of a human occupational health clinical expertise. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Analytical-processes Occupational-health Occupational-respiratory-disease Pulmonary-system-disorders Quantitative-analysis Questionnaires Respiratory-infections Respiratory-system-disorders Work-analysis Work-areas Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  483-490
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032724
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2000 May; 42(5):483-490
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr Philip Harber, UCLA Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 10911 Weyburn Avenue, #344, Los Angeles, CA 90024
• Email:
  pharber@ucla.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:429c2f54deaf25cc95f91f24074e660f2ea16e8cfd3c7323e4ff67181c23820113666ac68f80fddf622d3168d378087e9f2ee74dca18ada419935f9e9de687be
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186591/cdc_186591_DS1.pdf
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