Screening practices of Israeli doctors' and their patients

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 300-303

  Dresner, Yizchak ^a,c   Frank, Erica ^b   Baevsky, Tuvia ^c   Rotman, Eran ^c   Vinker, Shlomo ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Patient health; Physician health

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; ISRAEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING HABIT;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77952585846     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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