What do general practitioners think and do about prostate cancer screening in australia?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 904-908

  Ilic, Dragan ^a   Murphy, Kerry ^a   Green, Sally ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

General practitioner; Prostate cancer; Qualitative research; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84891637639     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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