Estimating the burden of occupational cancer: Assessing bias and uncertainty

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 604-611

  Hutchings, Sally ^a   Rushton, Lesley ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CANCER RISK; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURNOVER TIME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL BIAS; UNCERTAINTY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85025804702     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2016-103810     Document Type: Article

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