Erratum: Mortality due to malignant and non-malignant diseases in Korean professional emergency responders (PLoS ONE (2015) 10(3) (e0120305) (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0120305));Mortality due to malignant and non-malignant diseases in Korean professional emergency responders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ahn, Yeon Soon ^a   Jeong, Kyoung Sook ^a  

^a Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADJUSTED RELATIVE RISK; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BILE DUCT CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; FIRE; FIRE FIGHTER; FLAME; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INJURY; INTOXICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KOREA; KOREAN (PEOPLE); LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOHEMATOPOIETIC CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; REGISTER; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; STOMACH CANCER; WORK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RISK; SOUTH KOREA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924390337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139255     Document Type: Erratum

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