Catching patients: Tuberculosis and detention in the 1990s

Chest

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 236-241

  Lerner, Barron H ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Robert Wood Johnson and the Arnold P Gold Foundations   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicable disease control legislation and jurisprudence; Homelessness; Medical ethics; Patient compliance; Public health administration; Quarantine; Socioeconomic factors; Tuberculosis prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DETENTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMELESSNESS; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0032952388     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.115.1.236     Document Type: Article

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