Injuries among construction workers in rural Iowa: Emergency department surveillance

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 698-704

  Zwerling, Craig ^a   Miller, Elizabeth Ruth ^a   Lynch, Charles F ^a   Torner, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTUSION; DISLOCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RURAL POPULATION; WOUND;

ADULT; BURNS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0029892998     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199607000-00013     Document Type: Article

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