The association between general practitioners' attitudes towards breast cancer screening and women's screening participation

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Line F ^a,b   Mukai, Thomas O ^a,b   Andersen, Berit ^c   Vedsted, Peter ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Research Unit for General Practice Research Centre for Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care   (Denmark)

^c RANDERS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; General practice; Participation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DENMARK; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84862264005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-254     Document Type: Article

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