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ArticleNew solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS2023

Active Surveillance of Engineered Stone Workers Facilitates Early Identification of Silicosis: A Discussion of Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases.

Sheiphali A Gandhi, Amy Heinzerling, Jennifer Flattery, Jane C Fazio, Asim Alam, Kristin J Cummings, Robert J Harrison

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Article in New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Sheiphali A GandhiDivision of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3156-7619
Amy HeinzerlingCalifornia Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch, Richmond, CA, USA.
Jennifer FlatteryCalifornia Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch, Richmond, CA, USA.
Jane C FazioDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Asim AlamCalifornia Pacific Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kristin J CummingsCalifornia Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch, Richmond, CA, USA.
Robert J HarrisonCalifornia Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch, Richmond, CA, USA.
California Department of Public Health · USCalifornia Pacific Medical Center · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

The MesoCase Study: Mesothelioma Case-Control and Rapid Case Ascertainment StudyF32CA265103 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GANDHI, SHEIPHALI ARVIND · 2021 to 2023
$133k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA265103NIOSH CDC HHS R13 OH009753NIOSH CDC HHS R25 OH008802NIOSH CDC HHS T42 OH008429NIOSH CDC HHS U19 OH012293NIOSH CDC HHS U60 OH008468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silicosis in workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica while fabricating engineered stone products is an emerging respiratory health issue. We describe silicosis in engineered stone workers in California and examine clinical features by the source of identification. Cases were identified passively using hospital-based patient discharge data or actively through outreach and medical testing following enforcement investigation. Outcomes were examined based on the source of case identification. We identified 18 cases diagnosed between 2006 and 2020. Cases identified passively compared to other identification methods were associated with lower percent predicted forced vital capacity (FVC) (

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Occupational DiseasesOccupational ExposureSilicosisHumansSilicon DioxideWatchful WaitingSilicon Dioxideengineered stoneoccupational disease surveillanceoccupational lung diseasesilicosis

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PMID37649363
PMCPMC11268947
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