Final Results of a 3-Year Literacy-Informed Intervention to Promote Annual Fecal Occult Blood Test Screening

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 724-731

  Arnold, Connie L ^a   Rademaker, Alfred ^b   Wolf, Michael S ^c   Liu, Dachao ^b   Lucas, Geoffrey ^a   Hancock, Jill ^a   Davis, Terry C ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual screening; Colon cancer screening; Federally Qualified Health Centers; Health literacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD; SCREENING; UNITED STATES; AGED; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 84954318097     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-015-0146-6     Document Type: Article

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