General practitioner characteristics and delay in cancer diagnosis. a population-based cohort study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hansen, Rikke P ^a,b   Vedsted, Peter ^a,b   Sokolowski, Ineta ^a   Søndergaard, Jens ^c   Olesen, Frede ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; delay; Denmark; family practice; GP characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COHORT STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DENMARK; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80053381329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-100     Document Type: Article

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