Toward a Safe Workplace: The Role of Systematic Reviews

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• Personal Author:
  Rosenstock, Linda ; Thacker SB
• Description:
  The systematic evaluation of any health topic is essential to excellent public health practice. Systematic reviews, evidence-based recommendations, and meta-analysis are playing an increasingly important role in decision making in health-related issues and for setting priorities for research. We hope this collection of scientific reviews will encourage researchers to make use of existing knowledge and address issues that will maximize the future progress of occupational injury prevention. These issues include requiring that new interventions be rigorously evaluated, using a multidisciplinary approach to conduct intervention research that addresses worker groups and hazards at high risk for injury, developing study designs that include controls and measurable outcomes, and publishing these data in the scientific literature. These are necessary steps if the promise of NORA to improve worker health and safety is to be realized. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Preventive Medicine Safety
• Keywords:
  Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Preventive-medicine
• ISSN:
  0749-3797
• Publisher:
  Elsevier Science, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4-5
• Volume:
  18
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000793
• Citation:
  Am J Prev Med 2000 May; 18(4S):4-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• Supplement:
  4S
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198189/cdc_198189_DS1.pdf
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