Durable improvements in prostate cancer screening from online spaced education: A randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 472-478

  Kerfoot, B Price ^a,b   Lawler, Elizabeth V ^a,c,d,f   Sokolovskaya, Galina ^a,d   Gagnon, David ^a,d,e   Conlin, Paul R ^a,b,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPACED EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77958166727     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.07.016     Document Type: Article

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