Carpal tunnel syndrome and its relation to occupation: a systematic literature review (2007)
Palmer, Keith T., Harris, E. Clare, Coggon, David
Objectives To assess occupational risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), we conducted a systematic literature review. Methods We identified relevant primary research from two major reviews in...
Compensating occupationally related tenosynovitis and epicondylitis: a literature review (2007)
Palmer, Keith T., Harris, E. Clare, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To assess occupational associations with tenosynovitis and epicondylitis, we conducted a systematic literature review. We focused particularly on evidence that might support compensation...
Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Calnan, Michael, Linaker, Catherine, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether knee pain in the community behaves like a regional pain syndrome, as judged by its associations with mental health, self- rated health (SRH), and beliefs about...
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
BACKGROUND: Arm pain is a common cause of incapacity for work and is often attributed to occupational activities, but in many cases the pathogenesis is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether arm...
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
Background: Arm pain is a common cause of incapacity for work and is often attributed to occupational activities, but in many cases the pathogenesis is unclear. Objective: To investigate whether arm...
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in past users of sheep dip and other pesticides (2007)
Solomon, Christine, Poole, Jason, Palmer, Keith T., Peveler, Robert, Coggon, David
Objectives: To explore the prevalence and pattern of neuropsychiatric symptoms in past users of sheep dip and other pesticides. Methods: From a postal survey of men born between 1933 and 1977 and...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Background Few community-based epidemiological investigations of upper limb disorders (ULDs) have classified cases by validated procedures involving a structured clinical examination. Aim To compare...
A case-control study of risk factors for arm pain presenting to primary care services (2006)
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association of occupational activities, mental health and comorbidity with care seeking for arm pain, and to test the hypothesis that specific disorders arise from...
A case-control study of risk factors for arm pain presenting to primary care services (2006)
Ryall, Claire, Coggon, David, Peveler, Robert, Reading, Isabel, Palmer, Keith T.
Objectives: To investigate the association of occupational activities, mental health and comorbidity with care seeking for arm pain, and to test the hypothesis that specific disorders arise from...
Assessing case definitions in the absence of a diagnostic gold standard (2005)
Coggon, David, Martyn, Christopher, Palmer, Keith T., Evanoff, Bradley
Optimal case definition is important in epidemiological research, but can be problematic when no satisfactory gold standard is available. In particular, difficulties arise where the pathology...
Palmer, Keith T., Calnan, Michael, Wainwright, David, Poole, Jason, O'Neill, Claire, Winterbottom, Anna, ...
Background: Somatization (a tendency to report distress from somatic symptoms) is a little studied, but potentially important, confounder and effect modifier in occupational studies of...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To determine the prevalence, interrelation, and impact of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb in the general population. Methods: A total of 9,696 randomly selected adults of...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Little is known about the distribution and determinants of pain at multiple sites in the neck and upper limb. To investigate the prevalence, pattern, and clustering of such pains and the association...
Appraisal standards in occupational medicine (2004)
Palmer, Keith T., McElearney, Noel, Harrington, Malcolm
Following a series of serious misdemeanours by British doctors, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a system of re-licensing called ‘revalidation’. Annual medical appraisal forms an...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To determine the prevalence, interrelation, and impact of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb in the general population. Methods: A total of 9,696 randomly selected adults of...
Walker-Bone, Karen, Reading, Isabel, Coggon, David, Cooper, Cyrus, Palmer, Keith T.
Little is known about the distribution and determinants of pain at multiple sites in the neck and upper limb. To investigate the prevalence, pattern, and clustering of such pains and the association...
Exposure to metal fume and infectious pneumonia (2003)
Palmer, Keith T., Poole, Jason, Ayres, John G., Mann, Jonathan, Burge, P. Sherwood, Coggon, David
To test the hypothesis that inhalation of metal fume reversibly increases susceptibility to pneumonia, the authors conducted a case-control study. Men aged 20-64 years, admitted to 11 hospitals in...
Extended follow-up of a cohort of British chemical workers exposed to formaldehyde (2003)
Coggon, David, Harris, E. Clare, Poole, Jason, Palmer, Keith T.
Background: Formaldehyde is mutagenic and, when inhaled at high concentrations, carcinogenic in rats. Some epidemiologic studies have linked occupational exposure to formaldehyde with cancers of the...
Pain in the forearm, wrist and hand (2003)
Pain in the forearm, wrist or hand may arise from one of several discrete rheumatic disorders of soft tissues, such as tenosynovitis, or from a non-specific regional pain syndrome. Symptoms are...
Soft-tissue rheumatic disorders of the neck and upper limb: prevalence and risk factors (2003)
Walker-Bone, Karen E., Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Cooper, Cyrus
Objectives: to review the epidemiologic literature concerning the occurrence of and the risk factors for pain and specific soft-tissue rheumatic conditions that affect the neck and upper limbs....
Walker-Bone, Karen E., Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To critically review the criteria used to diagnose nonarticular soft-tissue rheumatic disorders of the neck and upper limb. Methods: An extensive search of the literature, including a...
Reading, Isabel, Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
To explore whether different distributions of numbness and tingling in the hand can be usefully distinguished in epidemiologic studies of disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, the authors used a...
Walker-Bone, Karen E., Palmer, Keith T., Reading, Isabel, Cooper, Cyrus
Objective: To critically review the criteria used to diagnose nonarticular soft-tissue rheumatic disorders of the neck and upper limb. Methods: An extensive search of the literature, including a...
Reading, Isabel, Walker-Bone, Karen, Palmer, Keith T., Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
To explore whether different distributions of numbness and tingling in the hand can be usefully distinguished in epidemiologic studies of disorders such as carpal tunnel syndrome, the authors used a...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: To investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: To investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Objectives: to investigate the association between functional difficulties in using the upper limb and extent and frequency of finger blanching, and the merits of these markers in grading the...
Occupational exposure to noise and hearing difficulties in Great Britain (2001)
Palmer, Keith T., Coggon, David, Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Griffin, Michael J.
The objectives of this research were to determine the prevalence of self-reported hearing difficulties and tinnitus in working-aged people from the general population, and to estimate the risks from...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods: A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Syddall, Holly E., Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Although some occupational sources of hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) have been extensively investigated, the risks associated with others are poorly characterized. Methods: A...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David
Background: Exposure to hand-transmitted vibration (HTV) can cause sensorineural symptoms in the upper limb, but its impact has not previously been assessed in the general population. Methods: To...
Palmer, Keith T., Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Pannett, Brian, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the number of workers in Great Britain with significant occupational exposure to whole body vibration (WBV) and to identify the common sources of exposure and the occupations...
Validity of self reported occupational exposure to hand-transmitted and whole-body vibration (2000)
Palmer, Keith T., Haward, Barbara, Griffin, Michael J., Bendall, Holly, Coggon, David
OBJECTIVES - To assess the accuracy with which workers report their exposure to occupational sources of hand transmitted (HTV) and whole body vibration (WBV). METHODS - 179 Workers from various jobs...
Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
Palmer, Keith T, Walsh, Kevin, Bendall, Holly, Cooper, Cyrus, Coggon, David