Decrease in prostate cancer testing following the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 491-493

  Li, Jun ^a   Berkowitz, Zahava ^a   Hall, Ingrid J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; ETHNICITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROSTATE CANCER; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SELF REPORT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937154285     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2015.04.150062     Document Type: Article

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