Legal concerns trigger prostate-specific antigen testing

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 390-392

  Steurer, Johan ^a   Held, Ulrike ^a   Schmidt, Mathias ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^b   Tag, Brigitte ^a   Bachmann, Lucas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defensive medicine; Legal aspects; Prostate cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 62849113307     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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