A report on a workshop on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health B Reader Certification Program

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• Personal Author:
  Attfield MD ; Wagner, Gregory R.
• Description:
  This report presents a summary of a 2 day workshop held to discuss the current status of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) B-reader certification program. The NIOSH-B reader program was used to train and certify physicians in the use of the International Labor Office (ILO) system for classifying radiographs for the presence of pneumoconioses. Recently, this program has been criticized for variability among readers, and for biased readings during legal proceedings. The workshop generated many comments and suggestions including the following: an endorsement for the continuation of such a program, the need for trained and competent readers able to participate in public health surveillance of dust exposed workers, ongoing quality assurance of readers beyond that offered by quadrennial recertification, the need to expand the training of medical practitioners to improve competence in the recognition and prevention of occupational lung diseases, and the need for further research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Diagnosis Lung Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Radiography Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Chest-X-rays Coal-workers-pneumoconiosis Diagnostic-techniques JOCMA7 Lung-disease NIOSH-Author Pneumoconiosis Respiratory-system-disorders X-ray-diagnosis
• ISSN:
  0096-1736
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  34
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00210964
• Citation:
  J Occup Med 1992 Sep; 34(9):875-878
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4fcc829b8081f3e705b471d2bd13aeb8854a81d3f4d8e6a26b1fd14b8ee9f91e3db0cb6a6b5e0c8fd98dabb925940a8e080635623f9479196d41e2496789252c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/204044/cdc_204044_DS1.pdf
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