Chronic occupational respiratory disease

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 451-465

  Attfield, Michael D ^a   Wagner, Gregory R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33748984991     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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