TY - JOUR T1 - Personal and workplace psychosocial risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled study cohort: author response JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 303 LP - 304 DO - 10.1136/oemed-2013-102070 VL - 71 IS - 4 AU - Carisa Harris-Adamson AU - Ellen Christoph Eisen AU - Ann Marie Dale AU - Bradley Evanoff AU - Kurt T Hegmann AU - Matthew S Thiese AU - Jay Kapellusch AU - Arun Garg AU - Susan Burt AU - Barbara Silverstein AU - Stephen Bao AU - Linda Merlino AU - Fred Gerr AU - David Rempel Y1 - 2014/04/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/71/4/303.2.abstract N2 - The analysis we presented in the August 2013 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1 was performed by pooling raw data from 3515 workers from more than 50 workplaces collected by six research teams. This was not a meta-analysis but rather an analysis of data at the level of the individual participants. Meta-analyses are typically performed because the raw data are not available. Pooling of data at an individual subject level results in a more heterogeneous population with greater generalisability, increased variation in … ER -