Developing a system to predict laboratory-confirmed chlamydial and/or gonococcal urethritis in adult male emergency department patients

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-60

  Merchant, Roland C ^a   Depalo, Dina M ^b   Liu, Tao ^a   Rich, Josiah D ^a   Stein, Michael D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Emergency medicine; Gonorrhea; Male; Sexually transmitted diseases; Urethritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; UNITED STATES; URETHRITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76249094457     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.01.2099     Document Type: Article

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