Factors affecting compliance in faecal occult blood testing: A cluster randomized study of the faecal immunochemical test versus the guaiac faecal occult test

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Birkenfeld, Shlomo ^a   Belfer, Rachel Gingold ^b   Chared, Miri ^a   Vilkin, Alex ^b   Barchana, Micha ^c   Lifshitz, Irena ^c   Fruchter, Dana ^d   Aronski, Dina ^a   Balicer, Ran ^a   Niv, Yaron ^b,e   Levi, Zohar ^b,e  

^a CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Israel National Cancer Registry   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA; CAUSALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 80655139837     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2011.010147     Document Type: Article

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