Planning prompts as a means of increasing preventive screening rates

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-93

  Milkman, Katherine L ^a   Beshears, John ^b   Choi, James J ^c   Laibson, David ^d   Madrian, Brigitte C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral; Colonoscopy; Communication; Economics; Memory; Primary prevention; Reminder systems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REMINDER SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871940347     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.10.021     Document Type: Letter

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