How much work-related injury and illness is missed by the current national surveillance system?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 357-365

  Rosenman, Kenneth D ^a   Kalush, Alice ^a   Reilly, Mary Jo ^a   Gardiner, Joseph C ^a   Reeves, Mathew ^a   Luo, Zhewui ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMPLOYER; EVALUATION; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GOVERNMENT; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SELECTION BIAS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 33646827678     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000205864.81970.63     Document Type: Article

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