The reliability of passively collected AIDS surveillance data in Massachusetts

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 100-104

  Gallagher, Kathleen M ^a,b,c   Jara, Michele ^a,b   Demaria Jr , Alfred ^a   Seage, George R ^b   Heeren, Timothy ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral Therapy; Epidemiology; Evaluation Studies; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Factors; Statistics; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037307113     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(02)00265-X     Document Type: Article

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