Accuracy of industry and occupation on death certificates of electric utility workers: Implications for epidemiologic studies of magnetic fields and cancer

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 512-518

  Andrews, Kurtis W ^a,b   Savitz, David A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordance; Death certificates; Electromagnetic fields; Epidemiology; Methods; Mortality

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EMPLOYMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BRAIN CANCER; CONCORDANCE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FIELD EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC-FIELD; METHOD; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MORTALITY; ODD RATIOS; WORKERS';

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033257822     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-186X(199912)20:8<512::AID-BEM5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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