Noisy Retrieval in Occupational Health Explanations

摘要

Noisy Retrieval in Occupational Health Explanations addresses a narrow but consequential interpretive problem: an irrelevant workplace record treated as patient evidence. A bounded review of the literature is used to formulate, rather than claim to complete, an evaluation. The focal evidence concerns whether baseline hearing measurements can predict subsequent speech-frequency hearing loss in noise-exposed industrial workers. Retrieval relevance is conditional on a claim and its intended population. A passage can be topically similar yet fail to support the exact inference. Construct source sets with related but ineligible papers and contradictory evidence. Measure whether the generated claim stays within the support actually retrieved. The proposed comparison concerns noise histories, safety documents, cohort eligibility; it would test whether the specific failure scenario is detected without erasing legitimate uncertainty. Implications are restricted to the evidence roles relevant to occupational hearing-risk assessment, leaving broader efficacy and deployment claims unresolved.