Reliability of an expert rating procedure for retrospective assessment of occupational exposures in community-based case-control studies

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 280-286

  Siemiatycki, J ^a,b   Fritschi, L ^a   Nadon, L ^a   Gerin M ^c  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

epidemiological methodology; occupational exposure assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031019023     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199703)31:3<280::AID-AJIM3>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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