Costs and compensation of work-related injuries in British Columbia sawmills

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-201

  Alamgir, Hasanat ^a   Tompa, Emile ^b   Koehoorn, Mieke ^a   Ostry, Aleck ^a   Demers, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; CANADA; COST; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 33947503740     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.027193     Document Type: Article

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