Internal Medicine Journal

Volume 43, Issue 9 pp. 959-961

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Hours of work and rest in the rail industry: to prescribe or not to prescribe, that is the question

D. Dawson, 

D. Dawson

Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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D. Dawson, 

D. Dawson

Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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First published: 04 September 2013

https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.12233

Citations: 2

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