Agreement between company-recorded and self-reported estimates of duration and frequency of occupational fumigant exposure

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 364-368

  Calvert, Geoffrey M ^a   Mueller, Charles A ^a   O'Neill, Virginia L ^a   Fajen, John M ^a   Briggle, Thomas ^b   Fleming, Lora E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data agreement; Epidemiologic methods; Fumigation; Occupational exposure estimation; Pesticides, occupational health

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; METHYL BROMIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FLORIDA; FUMIGATION; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFINIC ACIDS;

EID: 0030789948     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199710)32:4<364::AID-AJIM7>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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