Physician over-recommendation of mammography for terminally ill women

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-37

  Leach, Corinne R ^a,b   Klabunde, Carrie N ^a   Alfano, Catherine M ^a   Smith, Judith Lee ^c   Rowland, Julia H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; mammography; practice guidelines; primary care; screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 83855162911     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26233     Document Type: Article

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