Factors affecting non attendance in screening programmes

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Murphy, Gwen ^a   Daly, L ^b   Kelleher, C C ^b   Clarke, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DENMARK; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IRELAND; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIVACY; RURAL AREA; TELEPHONE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 46349097538     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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