Conflicting national recommendations and the use of screening mammography: Does the physician's recommendation matter?

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 88-95

  Taplin, Stephen H ^a,b,c   Urban, Nicole ^b,c   Taylor, Victoria M ^b,c   Savarino, Jim ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT EDUCATION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0031092159     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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