Efficacy of an educational intervention with kidney transplant recipients to promote skin self-examination for squamous cell carcinoma detection

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 689-695

  Robinson, June K ^a   Turrisi, Rob ^c   Mallett, Kimberly A ^c   Stapleton, Jerod ^c   Boone, Susan L ^a   Kim, Nikki ^a   Riyat, Nayna Vicky ^a   Gordon, Elisa J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECIPIENT; SELF EXAMINATION; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN EXAMINATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SELF-EXAMINATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79959412747     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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