Promoting use of colorectal cancer screening tests: Can we change physician behavior?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1097-1101

  Walsh, Judith M E ^a,b   Salazar, René ^a   Terdiman, Jonathan P ^a   Gildengorin, Ginny ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Women's Hlth Clin Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Prevention; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; SIGMOIDOSCOPE;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 30944452766     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0245.x     Document Type: Article

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