Re: Proportionate mortality among union members employed at three Texas refineries

✍ Scribed by Barbara J. Divine; Kenneth P. Satin

• Book ID: 101240038
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-3586
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199901)35:1<92::aid-ajim13>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

Dement et al. [1998]

have reported on a proportionate mortality study among Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' Union (OCAW) members who were employed at three large Texas refineries. The study is framed in the context of the limitations of other refinery worker investigations, e.g., misclassification of exposure, inadequate control of latency, no analyses by length of employment, and lack of information on potential confounding factors. However, the current study offers no advantages since it has many of the same limitations noted above, in addition to (1) those related to the PMR design, (2) incomplete ascertainment of deaths, and (3) small number of deaths for many of the causes studied. Furthermore, the three refineries Dement et al. focus on have all been the subject of comprehensive cohort mortality studies that have provided more detailed information than Dement et al. on patterns of mortality among these workers [