Investigating clusters in the workplace and beyond

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 443-447

  Brown, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cluster; Community; Epidemiology; Investigations; Methods; Workplaces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKPLACE;

AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 0032753850     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/49.7.443     Document Type: Article

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