Respirator impact on work task performance

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-26

  Harber, Philip ^a,b,c   Yun, David ^a,c   Santiago, Silverio ^b,c   Bansal, Siddharth ^a,c   Liu, Yihang ^a,c  

^a Department of Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Veterans Administration   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGN TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VENTILATOR;

EID: 78751649479     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181febc75     Document Type: Article

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