Effects of health screening for adults with intellectual disability: A pooled analysis

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 61, Issue 584, 2011, Pages 193-196

  Lennox, Nicholas ^a   Ware, Robert ^a   Bain, Chris ^a   Gomez, Miriam Taylor ^a   Cooper, Sally Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disability; General practitioners; Intellectual; Mass screening; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TETANUS TOXOID; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTIPATION; CONSULTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIPHTHERIA; EPILEPSY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT CARE; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCREENING TEST; SKIN TUMOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TETANUS; THYROID DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955842633     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp11X561186     Document Type: Article

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