Association of regional variation in primary care physicians' colorectal cancer screening recommendations with individual use of colorectal cancer screening

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Haas, Jennifer S ^a   Fitzmaurice, Garrett ^a   Brawarsky, Phyllis ^a   Liang, Su Ying ^b   Hiatt, Robert A ^b   Klabunde, Carrie N ^c   Brown, Martin L ^c   Phillips, Kathryn A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978436578     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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