What needs to change to increase chlamydia screening in general practice in Australia? the views of general practitioners

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hocking, Jane S ^a   Parker, Rhian M ^b,c   Pavlin, Natasha ^a   Fairley, Christopher K ^a   Gunn, Jane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTACT TRACING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 58649096098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-425     Document Type: Article

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