Methods for using narrative text from injury reports to identify factors contributing to construction injury

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 373-380

  Bondy, Jessica ^a,d   Lipscomb, Hester ^b   Guarini, Kenneth ^c   Glazner, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OMI Safety Services Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction injury; Injury classification schemes; Injury etiology; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RISK FACTOR; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; COLORADO; COMMUNICATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 27744555308     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20228     Document Type: Article

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