Prescribe for Health: Improving Cancer Screening in Physician Practices Serving Low-Income and Minority Populations

Archives of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-337

  Manfredi, Clara ^a   Czaja, Ronald ^b   Freels, Sally ^a   Trubitt, Mitchell ^c   Warnecke, Richard ^a   Lacey, Loretta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHICAGO; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0032113219     PISSN: 10633987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfami.7.4.329     Document Type: Article

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