Why hasn't this patient been screened for colon cancer? An Iowa research network study

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 458-468

  Levy, Barcey T ^a   Nordin, Terri ^a   Sinift, Suzanne ^a   Rosenbaum, Marcy ^a   James, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 35348914239     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2007.05.070058     Document Type: Article

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