Willingness to offer chlamydia testing in general practive in New South Wales

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-230

  Khan, Asaduzzaman ^a   Hussain, Rafat ^b   Plummr, David ^c   Minichiello, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URETHRA; UTERINE CERVIX; WORKLOAD;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URETHRA; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33747131852     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00862.x     Document Type: Article

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