Residential wire codes: Reproducibility and relation with measured magnetic fields

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 333-339

  Tarone, Robert E ^a   Kaune, William T ^b   Linet, Martha S ^a   Hatch, Elizabeth E ^a   Kleinerman, Ruth A ^a   Robison, Leslie L ^c   Boice Jr , John D ^a   Wacholder, Sholom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EM Factors   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Exposure assessment; Magnetic fields; Misclassification; Wire codes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0031960150     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.5.333     Document Type: Article

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