A study of mortality patterns at a tyre factory 1951-1985: A reference statistic dilemma

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 330-335

  Veys, C A ^a,b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General and cancer mortality; Reference statistics; Rubber workers

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; RUBBER; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 4444373829     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqh011     Document Type: Article

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