Physicians' beliefs about effectiveness of cancer screening tests: A national survey of family physicians, general internists, and obstetrician–gynecologists
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Physicians' beliefs about effectiveness of cancer screening tests: a national survey of family physicians, general internists, and obstetrician-gynecologists.
OBJECTIVE To study physicians' beliefs about the effectiveness of different tests for cancer screening. METHODS Data were examined from the Women's Health Survey of 1574 Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Obstetrics-Gynecology physicians to questions about their level of agreement about the clinical effectiveness of different tests for breast, cervical, ovarian, and colorectal cancer scr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Preventive Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0091-7435
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.07.009