The epidemiology of ocular injury in a major US automobile corporation

Eye

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 870-874

  Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b   Lincoln, Andrew ^c   Tielsch, James M ^c   Baker, Susan P ^c  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile industry; Epidemiology; Eye injury; Incidence; Ocular trauma; Work related injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CORNEA INJURY; EYE INJURY; EYE PROTECTION; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; RISK; UNITED STATES; WORK RESUMPTION;

EID: 0031759258     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1998.220     Document Type: Article

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