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Occupational lung health- A Pilot field study
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
This study described the importance of occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
Omland O et al. Occupational chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review Scand J Work Environ Health Online-first -article doi:10.5271/sjweh.3400
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
Yes
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
A percentage of predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) is unlikely to be clearly defined. In the manuscript, the author described 56.26% of the mean FEV1% and 83.28% of the mean% ratio of FEV1/FVC that is defined as FEV1%, simultaneously. Furthermore, the illustration shows different data between FEV1 and FEV1/FVC. These inconsistencies should be figured out.
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
N/A
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
The author should eliminate and describe the influence of passive smoking, environment, and comorbidity on pulmonary function.
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
To clarify occupational obstructive dysfunction in the subjects, the author should evaluate the correlation between its severity and occupational history.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
The data and discussion seem to be immature.
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Other Comments:
None.
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Competing interests:
None
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
I am a clinical pneumonologist.
- How to cite: Koyama N .Comments to the author[Review of the article 'Occupational lung health- A Pilot field study ' by Raju S].WebmedCentral 2013;5(1):WMCRW002913
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
The main objective is to highlight the prevalence of COPD amongst industrial workers of the organized sector.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
The objective is very well satisfied by the matreial and methods adopted.
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
The claimed objective is extremely well placed in the context of published literature. there is scnt data on this subject from India.
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
Not applicable as the claimed objective is well met
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
NA
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
The methodology is valid and pertinent
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
As this is a pilot study and it brings out salient facts about the subject matter pertaining to India, the next endevor should include interventions to verify the claimed objective and see if control of environment in the respective industry helps to bring about a sizable reduction in prevalenvce of COPD in the said population.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
The data does qualify for wide dissemination
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Other Comments:
A very thoughtfully chosen subject which needs to be carried out on a wider scale along with interventions
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Competing interests:
None
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
Yes -
Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
None -
Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
As a pulmonologist I am interested in respiratory disorders of industrial workers
- How to cite: Sen M K.Very aptly selected wording for the title[Review of the article 'Occupational lung health- A Pilot field study ' by Raju S].WebmedCentral 2013;4(11):WMCRW002893
Responded by Dr. Umesh C Ojha on 22 Nov 2013 01:57:25 PM
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Occupational exposure to dusts,gas,vapours and fumes affect the lung primarily
I believe these claims are real and if not we are in self denial
Yes there are various papers which are supportive to the claims
Yes the results definitely support the claims
No i dont think so since it seems that this study has followed material methods
Methodolgy adopted seems to be valid and i firmly believe that it can reproduced.
Since it is a pilot project there is a enormous scope for additional experiments
since copd is projected to be the 2nd place in terms of mortality in the decades to come this paper seems to be in the right direction particularly for the workers who work in unfavourable conditions day in and day out. i would definitely want to present this paper at our hospital and medical college.
since i am also a pulmonologist and i work in one of the occupational disease centers in ESI Hospital setup we get lots of cases related to occupational exposures to various vapours , dust ,metal fumes , other organic or inorganic dusts. our aim here in esi is not just to treat but also to compensate the affected persons.
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I am working as a Pulmonologist and nodal officer for south zone occupational diseases center at ESIC hospital & medical college , K.K.Nagar from 2008 till date