Mass screening for colorectal cancer: Compliance in Almopea Region

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Chrissidis, T ^a,b   Saliangas, K ^a   Economou, A ^a   Nikoloudis, N ^a   Andreadis, E ^a   Prodromou, K ^a   Georgakis, K ^a  

^a General Hospital of Edessa   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer screening; Compliance; Faecal occult blood test

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STATISTICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SERVICE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLYPLOIDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 13844316743     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-004-0154-s     Document Type: Article

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