Use of pension records for occupational health surveillance: Example of record-linkage with hospital discharge records to study the association between work and the incidence of leukaemias, lung and bladder cancer, and miscarriage;Il linkage tra le storie professionali di fonte INPS e i dati dei ricoveri ospedalieri per lo studio delle cause lavorative di alcuni tumori e degli aborti spontanei

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 96, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 147-160

  D'Errico, Angelo ^a,e   Mamo, C ^a   Costa, G ^b   Filippi, M ^c   Crosignani, P ^d  

^a ASL 5   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Ricerche e Progetti R and P   (Italy)

^d Registro Tumori Lombardia ^*  (Italy)

^e Servizio Regionale di Epidemiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic sector; Hospital discharge records; Incidence; Neoplasms; Pension records

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METAL INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENSION; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL SECURITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PENSIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644832186     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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