Accuracy of self-reported personal history of cancer in an outpatient breast center

Journal of Genetic Counseling

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-345

  Dominguez, Francisco J ^a   Lawrence, Christine ^b   Halpern, Elkan F ^a   Drohan, Brian ^b   Grinstein, Georges ^b   Black, Dalliah M ^a   Smith, Barbara L ^a   Gadd, Michele A ^a   Specht, Michele ^a   Kopans, Daniel B ^a   Moore, Richard H ^a   Hughes, Sherwood S ^a   Roche, Constance A ^a   Hughes, Kevin S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Data reporting; Neoplasm; Questionnaires; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PACIFIC ISLANDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MICROCOMPUTERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249944165     PISSN: 10597700     EISSN: 15733599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-006-9067-y     Document Type: Article

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