Cancer risk assessment by rural and appalachian family medicine physicians

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 372-377

  Kelly, Kimberly M ^a   Love, Margaret M ^b   Pearce, Kevin A ^b   Porter, Kyle ^a   Barron, Mary A ^b   Andrykowski, Michael ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

APPALACHIAN REGION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 70349513616     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2009.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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