Family physicians' knowledge and screening of chronic hepatitis and liver cancer

Family Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 345-351

  Ferrante, Jeanne M ^a,b,c   Winston, Dock G ^a   Chen, Ping Hsin ^a   De La Torre, Andrew N ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SCREENING; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEW JERSEY; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; POSTAL SERVICE;

EID: 43549097763     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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