Mammography FastTrack: An Intervention to Facilitate Reminders for Breast Cancer Screening across a Heterogeneous Multi-clinic Primary Care Network

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-195

  Lester, William T ^a   Ashburner, Jeffrey M ^a   Grant, Richard W ^a   Chueh, Henry C ^a   Barry, Michael J ^a   Atlas, Steven J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RISK FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 60849107617     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2813     Document Type: Article

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