Interventions fail to increase cancer screening rates in community-based primary care practices

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 435-440

  Ruffin IV, MacK T ^a,b   Gorenflo, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Family physicians; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4143133113     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.04.055     Document Type: Article

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