What do specialists and GPs think about the introduction of colorectal cancer screening? A qualitative study

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1338, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Abel, Gillian M ^a   Thompson, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 79960286722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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