Post-Offer Pre-Placement Screening for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Newly Hired Manufacturing Workers

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Dale, Ann Marie ; Gardner, Bethany T. ; Buckner-Petty, Skye ; Strickland, Jaime R. ; Evanoff, Bradley
• Description:
  Objective
  
  We determined the predictive validity of a post-offer pre-placement (POPP) screen using nerve conduction velocity studies (NCV) to identify future cases of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
  
  Methods
  
  A cohort of 1648 newly hired manufacturing production workers underwent baseline NCS, and were followed for 5 years.
  
  Results
  
  There was no association between abnormal POPP NCV results and incident CTS. Varying NCV diagnostic cut-offs did not improve predictive validity. Workers in jobs with high hand/wrist exposure showed greater risk of CTS than those in low exposed jobs (Relative Risk 2.82; 95% CI 1.52, 5.22).
  
  Conclusions
  
  POPP screening seems ineffective as a preventive strategy for CTS.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Commerce Female Humans Male Manufacturing Industry* Mass Screening Median Nerve Neural Conduction Occupations Personnel Selection Retrospective Studies

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• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 58(12):1212-1216.
• Pubmed ID:
  27930481
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5323071
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 OH008017/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8f21b14e85d6d62d7dfd1973010ecd813ac6ec095a0ddd20d22baf1aeb0db0e1
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44349/cdc_44349_DS1.pdf
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