The level of preventive health care in an internal medicine residency clinic: Still only an ounce of prevention?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 550-554

  Keim, Douglas B ^a,b   Gomez, Carlos F ^a,b   Wolf, Andrew M D ^a,b  

^a Univ of Virginia Hlth Sci Center ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS;

EID: 0031746342     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199806000-00008     Document Type: Article

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