Association between burnout at work and leukocyte adhesiveness/aggregation

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 828-833

  Lerman, Yehuda ^a,b   Melamed, Samuel ^a   Shragin, Yuri ^a   Kushnir, Talma ^a   Rotgoltz, Yosef ^a   Shirom, Arie ^a   Aronson, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Occupational Health Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burnout; Exhaustion; Leukergy; Leukocyte adhesiveness aggregation test; Somatic complaints; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

EID: 0032760465     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199911000-00017     Document Type: Article

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