Generalizability of results from the national lung screening trial

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 669-672

  Heuvers, Marlies E ^a   Wisnivesky, Juan ^b   Stricker, Bruno H ^a   Aerts, Joachim G ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Generalization bias; Lung cancer; Lung cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871289224     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-012-9720-8     Document Type: Article

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