Informing men about prostate cancer screening: A randomized controlled trial of patient education materials

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-471

  Ilic, Dragan ^a,b   Egberts, Kristine ^a   McKenzie, Joanne E ^a   Risbridger, Gail ^a   Green, Sally ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Mass screening; Patient education; Prostatic neoplasms; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING STYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VIDEORECORDING; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 41549159760     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0466-z     Document Type: Article

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