Attendance to cervical cancer screening in family practices in The Netherlands

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-42

  Hermens, Rosella P M G ^a   Tacken, Margot A J B ^a   Hulscher, Marlies E J L ^a   Braspenning, Jozé C C ^a   Grol, Richard P T M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attendance; Cervical cancer; Family practice; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0033960185     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1999.0603     Document Type: Article

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