Gender differences in early suspicion of tuberculosis in hospitalized, high-risk patients during 4 epidemic years, 1987 to 1990

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-243

  Cegielski, J Peter ^a,h   Goetz, Matthew B ^b   Jacobson, Jeffrey M ^b   Cohn, Susan E ^c   Weinstein, Robert A ^d   DeHovitz, Jack A ^e   Bennett, Charles L ^f,g  

^a Health Science Center   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEX FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031111424     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141206     Document Type: Article

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