Prescribing sunshine: A national, cross-sectional survey of 1,089 New Zealand general practitioners regarding their sun exposure and vitamin D perceptions, and advice provided to patients

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Reeder, Anthony Ivor ^a   Jopson, Janet Ann ^a   Gray, Andrew Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Primary care; Skin cancer; Sun exposure; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; METABOLISM; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TUMOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84865060431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-85     Document Type: Article

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