Costs and cost effectiveness of a health care provider-directed intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening among veterans

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 8877-8883

  Wolf, Michael S ^b   Fitzner, Karen A ^b   Powell, Eowyn F ^b   McCaffrey, Kathryn R ^b   Pickard, A Simon ^b   McKoy, June M ^b   Lindenberg, Julia ^b   Schumock, Glen T ^b   Carson, Kenneth R ^b   Ferreira, M Rosario ^b   Dolan, Nancy C ^b   Bennett, Charles L ^a  

^a JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; VETERAN; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 33644842987     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.02.6278     Document Type: Article

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