Good not bad medicine

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7799, 2011, Pages 671-

  Butler, John ^a   Barton, Desmond ^a   Shepherd, John ^a   Reynolds, Karina ^b   Kehoe, Sean ^c  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MORTALITY; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA DISCHARGE; ADULT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMANS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 79955934242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1760     Document Type: Letter

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