Another look at Emergency Department HIV screening in practice: No need to revise expectations

AIDS Research and Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brown, Jeremy ^a   Magnus, Manya ^b   Czarnogosrki, Maggie ^c   Lee, Vanessa ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 76749101146     PISSN: 17426405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-6405-7-1     Document Type: Article

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