Randomized trial of an integrated educational strategy to reduce investigation rates in young women with dysfunction uterine bleeding

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 395-400

  Searle, Judith ^a   Grover, Sonia ^b   Santin, Anita ^a   Weideman, Prue ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METRORRHAGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORKSHOP; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATION; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CURETTAGE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; VICTORIA;

EID: 0036780394     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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