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The ratings of the hand-exposure were assessed by five experienced occupational physicians. They rated the daily duration of significant use of hand force in 33 job titles with representative goniometric measurements. This was rated in five categories and noted on rating cards for each job title scored 1-5. Each card included a short description of the work tasks performed during the measurements.

1. No or an insignificant part of the time
2. A small part of the time
3.  Some of the time
4. Much of the time
5. Most of the time

The five categories were further split into two subcategories: low and high. The latter group was then scored with an addition of 0.5 points to the main category score, resulting in 10 scores (1– 5.5 by steps of 0.5 score points).

The combined mean value of the ratings was used as the exposure value.

Name: Hand

 

The partial Spearman’s correlations and overall agreement (weighted kappa) were both above 0.80.