Motivators for women to attend cervical screening: The influential role of GPs

Family Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  O'Connor, Mairead ^a   Murphy, Judith ^a   Martin, Cara ^b   O'Leary, John ^b   Sharp, Linda ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Tallaght and Coombe Women's and Infant's University Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Focus groups; GP; Motivators; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRELAND; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTILIZATION;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84904723496     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmu029     Document Type: Article

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