Modification of the Stockholm Vascular Scale

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 422-425

  Poole, Kerry ^a   Elms, Joanne ^a   Mason, Howard ^a  

^a HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HAVS; Health surveillance; Stockholm Workshop; Vascular

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FITNESS; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRATION SYNDROME; WINTER; WORKSHOP;

ARM; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; HAND; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAYNAUD DISEASE; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 33749643186     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql044     Document Type: Article

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