Why can't we do better breast examinations?

Nurse Practitioner Forum: Current Topics and Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 122-128

  Pennypacker, Henry S ^a,b   Naylor, Lisa ^b   Sander, Alice Ann ^b   Goldstein, Mark Kane ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Mammatech Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; STANDARD;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 0033181897     PISSN: 10455485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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