Population based randomised study of uptake and yield of screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy compared with screening by faecal occult blood testing

British Medical Journal

Volumn 317, Issue 7152, 1998, Pages 182-185

  Verne, Julia E C W ^a,e   Aubrey, Roger ^b   Love, Sharon B ^c   Talbot, Ian C ^d   Northover, John M A ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Bridge Cottage Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d St Mark's Hospital

^e North Thames Regional Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOID; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM POLYP; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; AGED; COLON TUMOR; GENERAL PRACTICE; INTESTINE POLYP; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RECTUM TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0032543792     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.317.7152.182     Document Type: Article

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