Home care workers: Injury prevention through risk factor reduction

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 757-766

  Jarrell, Rhonda Berlin ^a  

^a Creative Health Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33748955566     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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