A presentation made as part of the March 2022 OHCOW OCC-COVID Webinar Series: Understanding Long-term Risk and Managing Uncertainty
Date: March 25, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Hedges, Occupational Hygienist, OHCOW
A presentation made as part of the March 2022 OHCOW OCC-COVID Webinar Series: Understanding Long-term Risk and Managing Uncertainty
Date: March 25, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Hedges, Occupational Hygienist, OHCOW
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95% Confidence Interval (CI) is a range of values (upper and lower) that you can be 95% certain contains the true mean of the population.
The relative risk is a comparison of the risk of getting lung cancer for those exposed to diesel exhaust compared to those who have never been exposed to diesel exhaust – for example, if the relative risk is 1.5, it means that for the cumulative diesel exhaust exposure entered into the calculator, the risk associated with that exposure is 1.5 times higher than the background risk of lung cancer for those who have not been occupationally exposed to diesel exhaust.
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