Characteristics of national registries for occupational diseases: International development and validation of an audit tool (ODIT)

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Spreeuwers, Dick ^a   De Boer, Angela Gem ^a   Verbeek, Jos Ham ^a,b   Van Dijk, Frank J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTENT VALIDITY; DELPHI STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN AUDIT TOOL; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 72449175875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-194     Document Type: Article

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