The French musculoskeletal disorders surveillance program: Pays de la Loire network

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 471-479

  Ha, C ^a,e   Roquelaure, Y ^b   Leclerc, A ^c   Touranchet, A ^d   Goldberg, M ^a   Imbernon, E ^a  

^a French Institute for Public Health Surveillance   (France)

^b Universite d'Angers   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Inspection Médicale Régionale du Travail des Pays de la Loire   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650495728     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.042812     Document Type: Article

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