Can language-concordant prevention care managers improve cancer screening rates?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2058-2064

  Beach, Michael L ^a   Flood, Ann Barry ^a,b   Robinson, Christina M ^a   Cassells, Andrea N ^c   Tobin, Jonathan N ^c,d   Greene, Mary Ann ^a   Dietrich, Allen J ^a,e  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c Clinical Directors Network   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW YORK CITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REMINDER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 35448975563     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0373     Document Type: Article

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