Do you recommend cancer screening to your patients? A cross-sectional study of Norwegian doctors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Guidelines for cancer screening have been debated and are followed to varying degrees. We wanted to study whether and why doctors recommend disease-specific cancer screening to their patients.

Design

Our cross-sectional survey used a postal questionnaire. The data were examined with descriptive methods and binary logistic regression.

Setting

We surveyed doctors working in all health services.

Participants

Our participants comprised a representative sample of Norwegian doctors in 2014/2015.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome is whether doctors reported recommending their patients get screening for cancers of the breast, colorectum, lung, prostate, cervix and ovaries. We examined doctors' characteristics predicting adheren

SUBMITTER: Bringedal B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6720551 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature