Participation and health care provision of statutory skin cancer screening in Germany - A secondary data analysis

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 424-427

  Anastasiadou, Z ^a   Schafer I ^a   Siebert, J ^a   Gunther W ^a   Reusch, M ^b   Augustin, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Dermatologische Gemeinschaftspraxis Am Tibarg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PENSIONER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84975761220     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jdv.13559     Document Type: Article

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