Screening for colorectal cancer in personnel of an academic medical center

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2301-2304

  Levi, Zohar ^a,b   Chorev, Nechama ^a,b   Segal, Negba ^a,b   Plaut, Shlomit ^a,b   Shemesh, Ilana ^a,b   Chadad, Bracha ^a,b   Murad, Ilana ^a,b   Niv, Galia ^a,b   Niv, Yaron ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Hospital; Screening; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34547843599     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9675-2     Document Type: Article

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