Direct Costs of Occupational Asthma in Quebec between 1988 and 2002
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Forty to 70 cases of occupational asthma due to sensitization to an agent present in the workplace are accepted each year by the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, the Quebec medicolegal agency. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: In a random sample of eight to 10 accepted claims per year from 1988 to 2002, the direct costs of compensation for loss of income (CLI) and compensation for functional impairment (CFI), as well as the associations of these costs with selected variables, were assessed. RESULTS: Mean costs (presented as Canadian dollars x10(3)) of CLI, CFI and total were 72.5, 11.7 and 92.8, respectively, while the median costs were 40.7, 7.6 and 61.3 for CLI, CFI and total, respectively. Median CLI costs were significantly higher in men than women (69.9 versus 13.1), workers aged 40 years or older versus those younger than 40 years (90.1 versus 27.4), workers with occupational asthma due to workplace exposure to low versus high molecular weight agents (51.2 versus 38.6), and workers taking inhaled steroids at diagnosis (92 versus 52) and reassessment (81 versus 35). Median CFI costs were also higher in those requiring retraining (10.4) and taking early retirement (61.8) than workers who stayed with the same employer but in a different job (5.4). Median CFI costs were significantly higher for individuals being treated with inhaled steroids at the time of diagnosis (14.0 versus 5.2) and reassessment (13 versus 6), and for those left with bronchial hyperresponsiveness (9.5 versus 0.8) related to forced expiratory volume in 1 s and forced expiratory volume in 1 s/forced vital capacity. CONCLUSION: Age, sex, nature of occupational agent, treatment with inhaled steroids and type of rehabilitation all affect CLI, whereas lung function status at baseline and reassessment is related to CFI.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".