Incident rate calculation

The incidence of these syndromes seems to vary according to geographical area and ethnic background but is about 0.2-0.3 per 100,000.population (mean annual incidence rate). However incidence rates calculated for adult populations are up to three times higher. The fifth and sixth decades show peak incidence rates and there is also clear biomodality across the full age spectrum due to the existence of a juvenile form of dermatomyositis (JDM) which is pathogenetically distinct. Polymyositis, uncomplicated by skin changes, can also occur as a juvenile condition. 

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Refers to an incident rate calculated using cases that involve days away from work per 100 full-time equivalent employees. 

During the past several decades the primary indicator of the safety and health experience of the American work force has been the incidence of work-related injuries and illnesses as publishedannually by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Pl These incidence rates (calculated as the average number of new injury or illness cases per 100 full-time equivalent employees per year) have provided a standardized annualized statistic for comparing the overall work injury and illness experience of workers in various industry sectors. 

In the case-control design, a group with a disease (cases) is compared with a selected group of nondiscased (control) individuals with respect to exposure. The relative risk in control studies can only be estimated as the incidence rate among exposed individuals and cannot be calculated. The estimator used is the odds ratio, which is the ratio of the odds of exposure among the cases to that among the controls. 

The OSHA incidence rate is based on cases per 100 worker years. A worker year is assumed to contain 2000 hours (50 work weeks/year X 40 hours/week). The OSHA incidence rate is therefore based on 200,000 hours of worker exposure to a hazard. The OSHA incidence rate is calculated from the number of occupational injuries and illnesses and the total number of employee hours worked during the applicable period. The following equation is used ... 

In the first context the condition is assumed to have caused the death of the animal, that is, to be fatal. Here the incidence rate for a time interval and a group is calculated by... 

After a median follow-up of 43 months in 123 children treated with G-CSF, there was no difference in the incidence of secondary myelodysplasia or acute myeloid leukemia, in patients with aplastic anemia who survived longer than 2 years compared with the expected rate calculated before the use of G-CSF (83). Similarly, there was no evidence of an increased risk of myelodysplasia or acute myeloid leukemia in 54 patients treated with G-CSF for 4-6 years for severe congenital neutropenia (6). 

Portier CJ, Kopp-Schneider A, Sherman CD. Calculating tumor incidence rates in stochastic models of carcinogenesis. Math Biosci 1996 135 129 16. 

Physical Sputter Deposition Rate. Calculate the physical sputter deposition rate assuming a sputtering coefficient ysput = L an incident ion flux Fj = 10 cm s , and density of the deposited film f = 5 10 cm. Also assume that all sputtered material is deposited on the substrate, and the area of the sputtered target is equal to the substrate area where the film is deposited (At = Asub)-... 

Calculations estimating sample size needed in clinical trials to detect differences between an incidence rate of 1/10000 and 2/10000 indicate that 306000 subjects would need to be enrolled into each group (i.e. placebo, drug) to detect these differences. For such serious ADRs as chloramphenicol-induced aplastic anemia, which occur in 1/30000 (Lasagna 1983) studies large enough to detect these differences would be prohibitively large. 

A patient might be exposed to a drug at one time point but not at another. This is particularly important for metabolic diseases, where the progression of the disease should be monitored over a long period and patients should be monitored pre- and post-treatment. Incidence rates can be calculated from the population exposure. Cohort studies are useful when there is a need to know the incidence rates of adverse events in addition to the relative risks of adverse events. 

The aim of proactive job surveys is to identify specific jobs and processes that may put employees at risk of developing WRMDs. Job surveys are typically performed after the jobs identified by the previous two surveillance components have been rectified. Job surveys of all jobs or a sample of representatives should be performed. Analysis of existing records will be used to estimate the potential magnitude of the problem in the workplace. The number of employees in each job, department, or similar population will be determined first. Then the incidence rates will be calculated on the basis of hours worked, as follows ... 

This is equivalent to the number of new cases per 100 worker years. Workplace-wide incidence rates (IRs) wiU be calculated for all cumulative trauma disorders and by body location for each department, process, or type of job. (If specific work hours are not readily available, the number of full-time equivalent employees in each area multiplied by 2000 hours will be used to obtain the denominator.) Severity rates (SRs) traditionally use the number of lost workdays rather than the number of cases in the numerator. Prevalence rates (PRs) are the number of existing cases per 200,000 hours or the percentage of workers with the condition (new cases plus old cases that are still active). 

A formula similar to the OSHA recordable rate described above can be used to measure PSIs. Known as the Process Safety Total Incident Rate (PSTIR), it is calculated as follows ... 

The concept of NNT has been extended to the time-to-event endpoint or to consider the benefit-risk profile over time. One can select a time point and calculate NNT based on the estimate (e.g., KM product limit estimate) of the cumulative incidence rate at the selected time point (Altman and Andersen 1999). However, the NNT depends upon the time point selected, and sometimes it is not sufficient to evaluate benefit and risk based on a fixed time point. Alternatively, one can calculate NNT using the inverse of... 

Number of incidents. Injury rates calculated by using offshore population data... 

The 200,000 figure in the formula represents the number of hours 100 employees working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year would work, and provides the standard base for calculating incidence rates.)... 

You can use the same formula to calculate incidence rates for other variables sucb as cases involving restricted work activity (column (1) on Form 300A), cases involving skin disorders (column (M-2) on Form 300A), etc. Just substitute the appropriate total for these cases, from Form 300A, into the formula in place of the total number of injuries and illnesses. 

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