Screening colonoscopy in the underserved population: Report of the first year of a no-cost colorectal cancer screening program for the underserved in Rhode Island

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1193-1195

  Dimase, Joseph ^a   Pressman, Amanda ^a,b   Asser, Seth ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED; OCCULT BLOOD; POPULATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; RHODE ISLAND;

EID: 79960055109     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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