Most epidemiological studies of disease aetiology do not consider potential risk factors at work. This may be because work is a complex exposure: people usually have a series of different jobs over their working lifetime; within each job there may be a range of different tasks; and there may be a variety of exposures in each job. Because of this complexity, many epidemiologists do not have the expertise or training to assess occupational exposures accurately. Our web-based application, OccIDEAS, manages the process of occupational agent assessment in epidemiological studies. The epidemiologist chooses the agents of interest for the study and OccIDEAS provides an online set of questionnaires that are tailored to those agents. The participant is asked specific questions about their job and evidence-based algorithms provide an assessment of exposure to each agent. OccIDEAS puts the world’s best occupational epidemiological expertise within reach of any researcher.

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OccIDEAS：基于Web的职业病接触评估。

大多数疾病病因的流行病学研究都没有考虑潜在的危险因素。这可能是因为工作是一个复杂的风险：人们通常在其工作生涯中从事一系列不同的工作；在每个工作中，可能会有一系列不同的任务；而且每项工作可能有各种各样的机会。由于这种复杂性，许多流行病学家没有专业知识或培训来准确评估职业暴露。我们基于Web的应用程序OccIDEAS可管理流行病学研究中的职业病原体评估过程。流行病学家选择了该研究的目标代理商，OccIDEAS提供了针对这些代理商定制的在线调查问卷集。向参与者询问有关其工作的特定问题，并且基于证据的算法可评估每个代理的暴露程度。OccIDEAS将世界上最好的职业流行病学专业知识带给任何研究人员。