Patient preferences for colon cancer screening

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 432-437

  Pignone, Michael ^a,c   Bucholtz, Dawn ^b   Harris, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Patient preferences; Screening; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0032789523     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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