Patient satisfaction with screening flexible sigmoidoscopy

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1790-1796

  Schoen, Robert E ^a,b,c,d   Weissfeld, Joel L ^b,c   Bowen, Nancy J ^a   Switzer, Galen ^a   Baum, Andrew ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0034717532     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.160.12.1790     Document Type: Article

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