A simple diagnostic model for ruling out pneumoconiosis among construction workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 595-601

  Suarthana, Eva ^a   Moons, Karel G M ^b   Heederik, Dick ^a   Meijer, Evert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

EID: 34548328273     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.027904     Document Type: Article

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