Classifying the forest or the trees?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 940-942

  Van Eerd, Dwayne ^a,b   Beaton, Dorcas ^a,c,d   Bombardier, Claire ^a,c   Cole, Donald ^a,c   Hogg Johnson, Sheilah ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; FOREST; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREE; WORKER;

EID: 0142074716     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(03)00157-4     Document Type: Note

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