What is the most cost-effective way to identify silica problem worksites?

✍ Scribed by Kenneth D. Rosenman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 23 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-3586
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199904)35:4<434::aid-ajim17>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

Having conducted silicosis surveillance for the last 17 years , I read with interest the recent article on Cost-Effectiveness of Hospital Discharge Records for Reaching Selected Endpoints in the Surveillance of Silicosis [Geidenberger et al., 1998]. I strongly disagree with the authors' conclusions and would contend that the small differences in costs they found favoring physician reports are based on a number of biases in their assumptions. These biases include