Should Premarital Syphilis Serologies Continue To Be Mandated by Law?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 1978, Pages 459-460

  Felman, Yehudi M ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST; DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVENTION; SCREENING; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PREGNANCY; RISK; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS; RISK; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0018197967     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1978.03290050049017     Document Type: Article

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6. Felman YM, Morrison JM: Examining the homosexual male for sexually transmitted diseases. JAMA 238:2046-2047, 1977.