Development of a brief survey on colon cancer screening knowledge and attitudes among veterans

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Wolf, Michael S ^a,b   Rademaker, Alfred ^a   Bennett, Charles L ^a   Ferreira, M Rosario ^a   Dolan, Nancy C ^a   Davis, Terry C ^c   Medio, Franklin ^d   Liu, Dachao ^a   Lee, June ^e   Fitzgibbon, Marian ^a   Lurie, Robert H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e The VA Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 33747397690     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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