Cost-efficient design of occupational exposure assessment strategies - A review

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 858-868

  Rezagholi, Mahmoud ^a   Mathiassen, Svend Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cost; error; information; optimization; performance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; COST EFFICIENCY; COST-EFFICIENT; COST-EFFICIENT DESIGN; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT DESIGNS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH ISSUES; STATISTICAL EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL RESULT;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 78649487992     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meq072     Document Type: Article

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