Impact of age-specific recommendation changes on organized breast screening programs

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-143

  Bryant, Heather ^a,b   Mai, Verna ^a  

^a Canadian Partnership Against Cancer   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast screening; Mammography; Programmatic screening; Recommendations

Indexed keywords

AGE SPECIFIC CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80052680827     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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