Primary care providers' response to the US Preventive Services Task Force draft recommendations on screening for prostate cancer

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 668-670

  Pollack, Craig E ^a,b   Noronha, Gary ^c   Green, Gene E ^c   Bhavsar, Nrupen A ^a,b   Carter, H Ballentine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; LETTER; MALPRACTICE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MASS SCREENING; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84860376114     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.135     Document Type: Letter

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