Presenteeism: Critical issues

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1055-1067

  Brooks, Ambyr ^a   Hagen, Susan E ^a   Sathyanarayanan, Sudhakar ^a   Schultz, Alyssa B ^a   Edington, Dee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PRESENTEEISM; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; WORKING TIME;

EID: 78649662889     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181f475cc     Document Type: Article

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