Mammography screening: Views from women and primary care physicians in Crete

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Trigoni, Maria ^a   Griffiths, Frances ^b   Tsiftsis, Dimitris ^c   Koumantakis, Eugenios ^c   Green, Eileen ^d   Lionis, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PAIN; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCREENING TEST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STRESS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 57149140878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-8-20     Document Type: Article

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