What qualities are most important to making a point of care test desirable for clinicians and others offering sexually transmitted infection testing?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Gaydos, Charlotte A ^a   Hogan, M Terry ^a   Uy, O Manuel ^b   Jackman, Joany ^b   Jett Goheen, Mary ^a   Albertie, Ariel ^a   Dangerfield, Derek T ^a   Neustadt, Celia R ^a   Wiener, Zachary S ^a   Rompalo, Anne M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROCONVERSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955772619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019263     Document Type: Article

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