Measuring the Preferences of Homeless Women for Cervical Cancer Screening Interventions: Development of a Best–Worst Scaling Survey

Patient

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 455-467

  Wittenberg, Eve ^a   Bharel, Monica ^b,c,d   Saada, Adrianna ^a   Santiago, Emely ^b   Bridges, John F P ^e   Weinreb, Linda ^f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital ^*  (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BEST WORST SCALING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LANGUAGE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VULNERABLE POPULATION; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOMELESS PERSON; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942369998     PISSN: 11781653     EISSN: 11781661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40271-014-0110-z     Document Type: Article

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