Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: What are we missing?

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-257

  Lipscomb, Hester J ^a   Pompeii, Lisa A ^b   Myers, D J ^a   Schoenfisch, Ashley L ^a   Dement, J M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based prevention; Observational study; Occupational injury

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALLING; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEGAL ASPECT; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE;

ABSENTEEISM; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 68949186205     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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