title: Applying epidemiology to adjudication.
abstract: Dr. Guidotti describes an epidemiologic study of firefighters, conducted by the University of Alberta, to underscore the difficulties of obtaining data and the years that can pass before analysis can even begin. He then delineates problems encountered when interpreting data in any epidemiologic study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Guidotti
mesh_terms: D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D015989:Healthy Worker Effect; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014942:Workers' Compensation