Factors associated with Mexico City dentists' willingness to treat AIDS/HIV-positive patients

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-174

  Irigoyen, María ^a,b   Zepeda, Marco ^a   López Cámara, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PATIENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL GLOVE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARE FOR CHRONICALLY ILL; EDUCATION, DENTAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; ODDS RATIO; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERILIZATION;

EID: 0032133719     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(98)90120-2     Document Type: Article

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