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Research Article

A population-based survey of hospitalized work-related ocular injury: diagnoses, cause of injury, resource utilization, and hospitalization outcome

Richard S. Baker 1Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; 2Jules Stein Eye Institute
,
M. Roy Wilson 1Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; 2Jules Stein Eye Institute
,
Charles W. Flowers, Jr. 1Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; 2Jules Stein Eye Institute
,
David A. Lee 2Jules Stein Eye Institute
&
Noel C. Wheeler 3Department of Biomathematics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Pages 159-169 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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