Fear of venepuncture as a barrier to testing for blood-borne infection and use of an oral fluid test as an alternative to venepuncture in a genitourinary medicine clinic

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-67

  McClean, Hugo L ^a   Taylor, A J ^b   Mortimer, A M ^c  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b Hull Primary Care NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEAR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL FLUID TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYPHILIS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VEIN PUNCTURE;

AMBULATORY CARE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHLEBOTOMY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VENEREOLOGY;

EID: 33847151212     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.020974     Document Type: Article

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