General practitioners' experiences of, and responses to, uncertainty in prostate cancer screening: Insights from a qualitative study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Pickles, Kristen ^a   Carter, Stacy M ^a   Rychetnik, Lucie ^b   McCaffery, Kirsten ^c   Entwistle, Vikki A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNCERTAINTY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84964600641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153299     Document Type: Article

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