Patients unaware of their HIV status present to an inner city accident and emergency department with respiratory complications

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 304-306

  Landau, Rachel ^a   Coker, Richard ^a   Vermeulen, Els ^a   Touquet, Robin ^a   Fothergill, Jane ^a   Poznansky, Mark C ^b  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency department; AIDS defining illness; HIV status

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0030839591     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.5.304     Document Type: Article

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