Association of Regional Variation in Primary Care Physicians' Colorectal Cancer Screening Recommendations with Individual Use of Colorectal Cancer Screening

• Egile Nagusiak: Jennifer S. Haas, MD, MSPH (Egilea), Garrett Fitzmaurice, ScD (Egilea), Phyllis Brawarsky, MPH (Egilea), Su-Ying Liang, PhD (Egilea), Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD (Egilea), Carrie N. Klabunde, PhD (Egilea), Martin L. Brown, PhD (Egilea), Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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IntroductionStudies show that the recommendations of a primary care physician for colorectal cancer screening may be one important influence on an individual's use of screening. However, another possible influence, the effect of regional differences in physicians' beliefs and recommendatio...