Work related and individual predictors for incident neck pain among office employees working with video display units.
Aims: To investigate work related and individual factors as predictors for incident neck pain among office employees working with video display units (VDUs).Methods: Employees in three administrative units of a medium sized city in Finland (n = 515) received mailed questionnaires in the baseline sur...
| Publicado en: | Occupational & Environmental Medicine Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 475 - 483 |
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BMJ Publishing Group
Jul2003
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