Education improves colorectal cancer screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy in an inner city population

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 509-512

  Zubarik, Richard ^a   Eisen, Glenn ^c   Zubarik, Jennifer ^b   Teal, Carlotta ^b   Benjamin, Stanley ^a   Glaser, Moshe ^b   Jack, Momudu ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b District of Columbia General Hospital   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL STATUS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0033957045     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00835-7     Document Type: Article

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