What can be gained from comprehensive disaggregate surveillance? The Avon Surveillance System for Sexually Transmitted Infections

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 411-415

  Slater, Wendi ^b   Sadler, Katharine ^c   Cassell, Jackie A ^c   Horner, Paddy ^d   Low, Nicola ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Grosvenor House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34547771667     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2006.023440     Document Type: Article

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