Some characteristics of repeated sickness absence
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Some characteristics of repeated sickness absence.
Some characteristics ofrepeated sickness absence. Several studies have shown that frequency of absence attributed to sickness is not distributed randomly but tends to follow the negative binomial distribution, and this has been taken to support the concept of 'proneness' to such absence. Thus, the distribution of sickness absence resembles that of minor injury at work demonstrated over 50 years...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1972
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.29.4.420