Older Women’s Experience with a Benign Breast Biopsy—A Mixed Methods Study

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1631-1640

  Schonberg, Mara A ^a   Silliman, Rebecca A ^b   Ngo, Long H ^a   Birdwell, Robyn L ^c   Fein Zachary, Valerie ^a   Donato, Jessica ^a   Marcantonio, Edward R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; breast biopsy; older women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOPSY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84939892446     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2981-z     Document Type: Article

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