Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 86, Issue 2 , Pages 137-146 , February 2012

Patients’ experiences and reported barriers to colonoscopy in the screening context—A systematic review of the literature

  • Sue-Anne McLachlan

      Affiliations

    • Oncology Department, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
    • Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: St. Vincent's Hospital, PO Box 2900, Fitzroy 3065, Victoria, Australia. Tel.: +61 3 92883156; fax: +61 3 92883172.
    • ,
  • Alison Clements

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Education Research Group, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Joan Austoker

      Affiliations

    • Primary Care Education Research Group, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
    • Joan Austoker died in January 2010.

Received 3 September 2010 ,Revised 7 March 2011 ,Accepted 8 April 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.04.010

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