Fifteen years of bowel cancer screening policy in Australia: Putting evidence into practice?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-42

  Flitcroft, Kathy L ^a   Salkeld, Glenn P ^a   Gillespie, James A ^a   Trevena, Lyndal J ^a   Irwig, Les M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CANCER; OCCULT BLOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 77955625442     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03739.x     Document Type: Review

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