Screening chest radiography: Results from a Greek cross-sectional survey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kamposioras, Konstantinos ^a   Casazza, Giovanni ^b   Mauri, Davide ^a   Lakiotis, Velisarios ^a   Cortinovis, Ivan ^b   Xilomenos, Apostolos ^a   Peponi, Christina ^a   Golfinopoulos, Vassilis ^a   Milousis, Athanasios ^a   Kakaridis, Dimitrios ^a   Zacharias, Georgios ^a   Karathanasi, Ioanna ^a   Ferentinos, Georgios ^a   Proiskos, Anastasios ^a  

^a Panhellenic Association for Continual Medical Research PACMeR   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ANXIETY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS CHEST X-RAY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746279955     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-113     Document Type: Article

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