Knowledge, attitudes and experience associated with testing for prostate cancer: A comparison between male doctors and men in the community

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 215-223

  Livingston, P ^a   Cohen, P ^b   Frydenberg, M ^c   Borland, R ^a   Reading, D ^a   Clarke, V ^a   Hill, D ^a  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Community; Knowledge; Male practitioners; Prostate cancer; Testing experience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER TEST; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SCIENCE;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PHYSICIANS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036378194     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2002.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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