Association of sleep habits with accidents and near misses in United States transportation operators

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 510-515

  Johnson, Kevin D ^a   Patel, Sanjay R ^a   Baur, Dorothee M ^a,b   Edens, Edward ^c   Sherry, Patrick ^d,e   Malhotra, Atul ^a   Kales, Stefanos N ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Interdisciplinary Center for Hormone and Metabolic Disorders Endokrinologikum ULM   (Germany)

^d Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC)   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DRIVER; EXCESSIVE DAYTIME SLEEPINESS; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; MALE; OPERATOR; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SHEEHAN DISABILITY SCALE; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; TRANSPORTATION OPERATOR; UNITED STATES; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP STAGE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84900836072     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000132     Document Type: Article

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