Developing national outcome standards for the management of gonorrhoea and genital chlamydia in genitourinary medicine clinics

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-229

  Low, N ^a   Welch, J ^b   Radcliffe, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Caldecot Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Caldecot Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULATORY CARE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; VENEREOLOGY;

EID: 2942610477     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2003.005165     Document Type: Review

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