Impact of a continuing medical education meeting on the use and timing of urgent cancer referrals among general practitioners - a before-after study

BACKGROUND: Detection of cancer in general practice is challenging because symptoms are diverse. Even so-called alarm symptoms have low positive predictive values of cancer. Nevertheless, appropriate referral is crucial. As 85% of cancer patients initiate their cancer diagnostic pathway in general p...

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Autores principales: Toftegaard, Berit Skjødeberg, Bro, Flemming, Falborg, Alina Zalounina, Vedsted, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28327100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-017-0607-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5361715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28327100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-017-0607-3

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