Searching the internet for information on prostate cancer screening: An assessment of quality

Urology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 112-116

  Ilic, Dragan ^a,b   Risbridger, Gail ^a   Green, Sally ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERNET; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RANK SUM TEST; SCREENING TEST;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PALPATION; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRASOUND, HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED, TRANSRECTAL;

EID: 3042703750     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.02.027     Document Type: Article

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