Understanding diagnosis of lung cancer in primary care: Qualitative synthesis of significant event audit reports

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 606, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Elizabeth D ^a   Rubin, Greg ^b   Macleod, Una ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Early diagnosis; Lung; Primary health care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIGNIFICANT EVENT AUDIT; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873866529     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp13X660760     Document Type: Article

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