Barbara L. Seltzer, Dennis J. Murphy, Charles
E. Yesalis III
NIOSH Education and Information Division
AUTHOR ABSTRACT
Due
to the lack of a standardized methodology to identify agriculturally
related fatalities and the inaccuracy of data from death certificates,
NSC's and NIOSH's estimates of the level of agriculturally
related fatalities conflict, and the validity of both is subject
to criticism. A follow-up survey with the next of kin of 107
potential agricultural fatalities, from a pool of 150 Pennsylvania
cases, has been conducted. This paper details the methods
and success in gaining supplemental information. Next of kin
were generally willing to provide the information (67%), with
both telephone (66%) and mail (68%) methods generating comparable
levels of cooperation. The optimal time frame for finding
current addresses and telephone numbers as well as for gaining
cooperation appeared to be about 1 year after the fatality.
However, a retrospective investigation of up to 3 years past
the anniversary of the fatality produced an acceptable rate
of cooperation. How the collected data compares with fatality
data for agriculture published by NSC and NIOSH has been addressed
in another paper.
JOURNAL AND NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#
JOURNAL:
Am J Ind Med. 1990; 18(2): 201-209.
Note:
American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
NLOM ID#:
90386169
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