Timing is everything: Methodologic issues locating and recruiting medically underserved women for abnormal mammography follow-up research

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 537-546

  Fair, Alecia Malin ^a   Wujcik, Debra ^b   Lin, Jin Mann S ^c   Egan, Kathleen M ^d   Grau, Ana M ^e   Zheng, Wei ^f  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Nashville General Hospital at Meharry   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal mammography follow up; Case control studies; Medically underserved females; Study recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44249122605     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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