Health and socioeconomic status differences among antibody hepatitis C positive and negative transfusion recipients, 1986-1990

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 130-134

  Hogg, Robert S ^a,b   Craib, Kevin J P ^a,b   Pi, David ^b   Lee, Samuel S ^c   Minuk, Gerald Y ^d   Shapiro, Colin M ^e   Schechter, Martin T ^a,b   O'Shaughnessy, Michael V ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RECIPIENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; AGED; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0037365841     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404586     Document Type: Article

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