Ethical issues in occupational disease outbreak investigations

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 657-663

  Cone, Jim ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENTIALITY; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845239687     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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