Access to Cancer Screening in People with Learning Disabilities in the UK: Cohort Study in the Health Improvement Network, a Primary Care Research Database

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Osborn, David P J ^a   Horsfall, Laura ^a   Hassiotis, Angela ^a   Petersen, Irene ^a   Walters, Kate ^a   Nazareth, Irwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865596202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043841     Document Type: Article

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