Rule-based exposure assessment versus case-by-case expert assessment using the same information in a community-based study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 215-219

  Peters, Susan ^a   Glass, Deborah C ^b   Milne, Elizabeth ^c   Fritschi, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; SOLVENT;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE BY CASE EXPERT ASSESSMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTHER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RULE BASED EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOLVENTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84893727940     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101699     Document Type: Article

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