Are gender differences in colorectal cancer screening rates due to differences in self-reporting?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 436-441

  Griffin, Joan M ^a,b   Burgess, Diana ^a,b   Vernon, Sally W ^c   Friedemann Sanchez, Greta ^d   Powell, Adam ^a,b   van Ryn, Michelle ^b   Halek, Krysten ^a   Noorbaloochi, Siamak ^a,b   Grill, Joe ^a   Bloomfield, Hanna ^a,b   Partin, Melissa ^a,b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Bias; Colorectal cancer; Gender; Medical record; Screening; Self report

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350539295     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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