Predicting attendance for breast screening using routinely collected data

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 229-236

  Van Der Pol, Marjon ^a,b   Cairns, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast screening; Predicting demand

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY AREAS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 3543077046     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026229624136     Document Type: Article

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