Occupational Asthma Surveillance Project

Details

• Personal Author:
  Breen VR ; Buist AS ; Frazier EA ; Heumann M ; O'Connor E ; Villnave J ; Vollmer WM
• Description:
  As part of a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded study of the incidence of occupation asthma, the electronic databases of a large health maintenance organization were used to develop a computerized algorithm for defining prevalent asthma. The predictive values of eight distinct utilization profiles were validated by chart review to establish the final algorithm. Using a 12-month window for analysis, we estimated a prevalence of 4.1 % among members aged 15-55, with the pharmacy and outpatient care databases accounting for 61 % and 66% of this total, respectively. By extending the search of the outpatient care database, the estimated prevalence increased to 5.3%, with 81 % of these accounted for by the outpatient care database. This analysis illustrates that electronic clinical information systems that provide disease-specific diagnostic Data for outpatient visits, coupled with electronic pharmacy records, provide a powerful and accurate tool to study asthma-related health care utilization and for population-based disease management. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Disease-control Health-care Occupational-diseases Occupational-health Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Surveillance-programs
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-70
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022289
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2003-102828
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U60-CCU-916057, 2001 Dec; :1-70
• Contact Point Address:
  William M. Vollmer, PhD, Center for Health Research, 3800 N. Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97227-1110
• Email:
  william.vollmer@kpchr.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Performing Organization:
  Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19980930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20010929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1ef2438cae5044cce224a553a9e90566e06ec4f7e02492687d807e658475f884fec988abf0a7511c7be45e52fa2daa07561f129f1a2b6913d32683eeb678fd1e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217989/cdc_217989_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.68 MB ]