Once is enough - Why some women do not continue to participate in a breast cancer screening programme

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1066, 1998, Pages 180-183

  Elwood, Mark ^a   McNoe, Bronwen ^b   Smith, Irish ^b   Bandaranayake, Michele ^b   Adam, Hugh ^a   Doyle, Terence C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Healthcare Otago ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; REMINDER SYSTEM;

ATTITUDE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REMINDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032557264     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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