Predicting occupational diseases

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 713-714

  Suarthana, Eva ^a,b,c   Meijer, Evert ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Heederik, Dick ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 71049148467     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.045609     Document Type: Editorial

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