General practitioners’ preferences with regard to colorectal cancer screening organisation Colon cancer screening medico-legal aspects

Frédérique Papin-Lefebvre, Elodie Guillaume, Grégoire Moutel, Guy Launoy and Célia Berchi

Health Policy, 2017, vol. 121, issue 10, 1079-1084

Abstract: French health authorities put general practitioners at the heart of the colorectal cancer screening. This position raises organisational issues and poses medico-legal problems for the professionals and institutions involved in these campaigns, related to the key concepts of medical decisions and suitability of standards. The objective of our study is to reveal the preferences of general practitioners related to colorectal cancer screening organisation with regard to the medico-legal risk

Keywords: Colorectal cancer screening; General practitioner; Preferences; Rights of patients; Discrete choice method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.08.013

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