Sentinel surveillance of occupational diseases: A quality improvement project

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 834-842

  Spreeuwers, D ^a   De Boer, A G E M ^a   Verbeek, J H A M ^a,b   De Wilde, N S ^a   Braam, I ^a   Willemse, Y ^a   Pal, T M ^a   Van Dijk, F J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Occupational diseases; Occupational health; Prevention and control; Quality improvement; Registries; Sentinel surveillance; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REGISTER; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONS; PHYSICIANS; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 55949084290     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20608     Document Type: Article

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