Breast cancer screening: Conflicting guidelines and medicolegal risk

JAMA

Volumn 309, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2555-2556

  Kachalia, Allen ^a   Mello, Michelle M ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84879388482     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.7100     Document Type: Short Survey

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