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In the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Occupational Health Supplement, the unadjusted prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome ever diagnosed among US workers was 6.05 percent, with a 95 percent confidence interval of 5.58 to 6.56 percent.
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In the source's own words
“Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (ever) 145,769,000 8,821,000 6.05 5.58 6.56”
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (NHIS 2015) Charts, NIOSH Worker Health Charts, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2015, Unadjusted Prevalence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (NHIS 2015) Among Workers table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The NIOSH Worker Health Charts table reports the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Occupational Health Supplement. The estimated population of workers is 145,769,000, and 8,821,000 of them had carpal tunnel syndrome ever.
- What it does not show
- This is a lifetime, self-reported figure with a clinician diagnosis in the survey. The page does not state the number of respondents, and the estimate is unadjusted.
In the data
A row of Repetitive Strain Injury Statistics: How Common Is RSI, as NIOSH NHIS 2015, US workers, ever: 6.1 percent.
- Condition
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Who
- US workers, NHIS 2015 occupational health supplement
- Period
- Lifetime
- Country
- United States
- Year
- 2015
Source
Used to calculate
- In the prevalence of repetitive strain and computer-related pain dataset, the 10 published figures for “Carpal tunnel syndrome” have a median of 4.2 percent, ranging from 1.7 to 34.
- The prevalence of repetitive strain and computer-related pain dataset holds 18 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The prevalence of repetitive strain and computer-related pain dataset draws on 9 distinct sources.