Contact tracing in a regional sexual health clinic: Audit outcomes and implications for sexually transmissible infection control

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 576-580

  Edmiston, Natalie ^a   Chuah, John ^b   McLaws, Mary Louise ^c  

^a Pacific Clinic   (Australia)

^b Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Contact tracing medical audit; Sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; GRAM STAINING; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMISSION ON PROFESSIONAL AND HOSPITAL ACTIVITIES; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUEENSLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 38349006238     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00147.x     Document Type: Article

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