Recruitment to mammography screening: A randomised trial and meta-analysis of invitation letters and telephone calls

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-118

  Page, Andrew ^a   Morrell, Stephen ^b   Chiu, Clayton ^c   Taylor, Richard ^a,b   Tewson, Richard ^a  

^a BreastScreen New South Wales   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE;

CORRESPONDENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 33646246413     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00101.x     Document Type: Article

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