The incidence and impact of recurrent workplace injury and disease: A cohort study of WorkSafe Victoria, Australia compensation claims

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Ruseckaite, Rasa ^a   Collie, Alex ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPENSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECURRENT DISEASE; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84877655221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002396     Document Type: Article

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