Update of predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in the Netherlands

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-55

  Segura, O ^a   Burdorf, A ^a   Looman, C ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037230230     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.1.50     Document Type: Article

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