Obstacles to family practitioners' use of screening tests: Determinants of practice?

Ken Resnicow; Mitchell Schorow; Harrison G. Bloom; Robert J. Massad

doi:10.1016/0091-7435(89)90057-1

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MedicineTest (biology)Family medicineSigmoidoscopyFalse positive paradoxObstacleColonoscopy

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Publication Info

Year: 1989
Type: article
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 101-112
Citations: 26
Access: Closed

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