Family Physicians' Barriers to Cancer Screening in Extremely Obese Patients

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1153-1159

  Ferrante, Jeanne M ^a,b   Fyffe, Denise C ^c   Vega, Marielos L ^b   Piasecki, Alicja K ^a   Ohman Strickland, Pamela A ^a,d   Crabtree, Benjamin F ^a,d  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d University of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BODY MASS; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBARRASSMENT; EMOTION; EXTREMELY OBESE PATIENT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IN DEPTH INTERVIEW; INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT; PATIENT BARRIER; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SEX RATIO; WORK EXPERIENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY, MORBID; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VAGINA SMEAR; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MORBID OBESITY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY, MORBID; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77952952097     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.481     Document Type: Article

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