Prenatal HIV tests. Routine testing or informed choice?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 49, Issue OCT., 2003, Pages 1334-1340

  Guenter, Dale ^a   Kaczorowski, Janusz ^a   Carroll, June ^a   Sellors, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRICS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTAL MAIL; PREDICTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWIFERY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRICS; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0142217499     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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