Cervical cancer screening of women with schizophrenia in Taiwan

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-328

  Lin, Herng Ching ^a   Yang, Ling Yu ^a   Chiu, Wen Ta ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY CARE; ASIAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; COMMUNITY; CONSENSUS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POPULATION; RESEARCH; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TAIWAN; URBANIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77949386552     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.61.3.327     Document Type: Letter

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