STD care: Variations in clinical care associated with provider sex, patient sex, patients' self-reported symptoms or high-risk behaviors, partner STD history

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1011-1018

  St Lawrence, Janet S ^a   Kuo, Wen Hung ^a   Hogben, Matthew ^a   Montaño, Daniel E ^b   Kasprzyk, Danuta ^b   Phillips, William R ^c  

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

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Physician decision making; Sexual health; STD care; USA

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RECURRENCE; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 2942534139     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.12.018     Document Type: Article

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