Emergency Department Sexually Transmitted Disease and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening: Findings from a National Survey

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 993-996

  Gift, Thomas L ^a   Hogben, Matthew ^a  

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

Author keywords

chlamydia; emergency medicine; gonorrhea; HIV; mass screening; sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCREENING TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

AMBULATORY CARE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33747765215     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.04.017     Document Type: Article

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