Consumer choice and the national bowel cancer screening program

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 184, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 541-542

  Salkeld, Glenn P ^a,b   Young, Jane M ^b   Solomon, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33745456518     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00374.x     Document Type: Editorial

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