The Road Ahead: What if Gastroenterologists Were Accountable for Preventing Colorectal Cancer?

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-207

  Lee, Jeffrey K ^a   Levin, Theodore R ^b   Corley, Douglas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GASTROENTEROLOGIST; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTESTINE PREPARATION; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS;

EID: 84874556489     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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