Old habits die hard: Chest radiography for screening purposes in primary care

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 650-656

  Mauri, Davide ^a,b,d   Kamposioras, Konstantinos ^a   Proiskos, Anastasios ^a   Xilomenos, Apostolos ^a   Peponi, Christina ^a   Dambrosio, Mario ^a,c   Zacharias, Georgios ^a   Koukourakis, Georgios ^a   Pentheroudakis, George ^b   Pavlidis, Nicholas ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c IRCCS MULTIMEDICA   (Italy)

^d TOYMPA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33750987349     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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