Agriculture and forestry work-related injuries among farmers admitted to an emergency department

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-258

  Nogalski, Adam ^a   Lübek, Tomasz ^a   Sompor, Jacek ^a   Karski, Jerzy ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agricultural injuries; Hospital admission; Injury severity; Mechanism of injury; Occupational risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FORESTRY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FORESTRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 39649102781     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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