HIV surveillance, public health, and clinical medicine - Will the walls come tumbling down?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 685-687

  Fairchild, Amy L ^a   Bayer, Ronald ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; SYPHILIS; VIRUS LOAD; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 80052157401     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1107294     Document Type: Short Survey

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