Preventive screening. What factors influence testing?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 48, Issue SEPT., 2002, Pages 1494-1501

  Finkelstein, Murray M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LIPID ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0036750116     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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