The most daunting problem in community-based studies of occupational cancer is retrospective exposure assessment. To avoid the error involved in using job title as the exposure variable or self-report of exposure, our team developed an approach based on expert judgment applied to job descriptions ob
Occupational case-control studies: II. Recommendations for exposure assessment
β Scribed by Patricia A. Stewart; Walter F. Stewart
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 967 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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