Low back pain and occupation among Irish health service workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Cunningham, Caitriona G ^a   Flynn, T ^b   Blake, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health service workers; Low back pain; Occupational; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IRELAND; LIFESPAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33749624220     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql056     Document Type: Article

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