Impact of differential injury reporting on the estimation of the total number of work-related amputations

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1144-1148

  Tak, Sangwoo ^a   Grattan, Kathleen ^a   Boden, Les ^b   Ozonoff, Al ^c   Davis, Letitia ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture analysis; Injury reporting; Misclassification; Surveillance; Workers compensation

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 84908156644     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22378     Document Type: Article

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