Searching for high-quality articles about intervention studies in occupational health - What is really missed when using only the Medline database?

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 484-487

  Rollin, Laetitia ^a   Darmoni, Stefan ^a   Caillard, Jean François ^a   Gehanno, Jean François ^a  

^a ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHY; DATABASE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78649566565     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3082     Document Type: Article

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