Underutilization of Digital Rectal Examination When Screening for Prostate Cancer

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-316

  Murthy, G Divakara ^a,b   Byron, Daniel P ^b   Pasquale, Donald ^a,b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STRATTON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FINGER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; OUTPATIENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLDIER; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0842348756     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.3.313     Document Type: Article

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