The cost effectiveness of gonorrhea screening in urban emergency departments

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 425-436

  Aledort, Julia E ^a,c   Hook III, Edward W ^b   Weinstein, Milton C ^a   Goldie, Sue J ^a  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR RISK ANALYSIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; URBAN AREA; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 21044449434     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000154501.22566.fa     Document Type: Article

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