Estimating the workload associated with symptoms-based ovarian cancer screening in primary care: an audit of electronic medical records.

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Published in BMC Fam Pract on December 12, 2014

Authors

Anita WeyWey Lim1, David Mesher2, Peter Sasieni3

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK. a.lim@qmul.ac.uk.
2: Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK. david.mesher@phe.gov.uk.
3: Centre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK. p.sasieni@qmul.ac.uk.

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