Seasonal variation of participation in colorectal neoplasia screening by colonoscopy or ct colonography [2]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-288

  Segarajasingam, Dev Shankar ^a   Fritschi, Lin ^b   Foster, Noellene M ^a   Mendelson, Richard M ^b   Forbes, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; WINTER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33747092748     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00874.x     Document Type: Letter

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